1. David Francis Powers was Special Assistant and assistant Appointments Secretary to US president John F Kennedy.
13 Facts About David Powers
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The son of Irish immigrants, David Powers was born and raised in the Charlestown section of Boston.
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David Powers's father died when he was two years old.
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David Powers graduated from Charlestown High School in 1930, and worked in a Boston publishing business until 1941.
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David Powers would take evening courses at Boston College, Harvard College, and the Boston Institute.
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David Powers first met Kennedy in 1946, when JFK was a Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts Eleventh Congressional District.
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Kennedy had heard that David Powers had an understanding of the people and issues in the district that would be vital to helping him win the race.
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David Powers usually was the first to see the President in the morning, and the last to see him at night.
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David Powers was less a political adviser than simply a friend with whom Kennedy could relax.
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At the request of Robert F Kennedy, Powers spent the years from 1965 to 1979 helping federal archivists gather and organize Kennedy memorabilia, papers, and other artifacts for the planned museum.
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On March 28,1998 David Powers died of cardiac arrest in Arlington, Massachusetts at the Symmes Medical Center.
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In 1952 David Powers married Josephine Lynch, a native of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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Historian Robert Dallek has written that David Powers was a "facilitator" of Kennedy's affinity for extramarital relations, discreetly arranging the time and places for trysts with a variety of women.