14 Photos Of President John F Kennedy In His Senate Office

Today we remember President John F. Kennedy. Since 2009 I have had the honor of occupying his Senate office. President Kennedy inspired a generation of Americans to serve their country at home and around the world and to help their fellow man. He also had a remarkable ability to look towards the future always searching for new ideas and new opportunities. As we remember President Kennedy today let us recommit to his vision, to this country and to our shared future. As President Kennedy once said: “I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great -- not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud -- but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.”

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Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy at work in Kennedy's Senate Office, 1959. Photograph (c) Jacques Lowe, all rights reserved.

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Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Kennedy's Senate office, 1959. Photograph (c) Jacques Lowe, all rights reserved.

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Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, in Kennedy's Senate Office, 1959. Photograph (c) by Mark Shaw, all rights reserved.

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Senator John F. Kennedy at his desk in 1955 after his lengthy recuperation from back surgery. During that period of recovery, he wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning Profiles in Courage. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 155A).

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Senator John F. Kennedy at his desk in 1955 after his lengthy recuperation from back surgery. During that period of recovery, he wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning Profiles in Courage. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 155A).

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Senator John F. Kennedy in his Senate office. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 186).

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Senator John F. Kennedy in his Senate office. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 186).

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Senator John F. Kennedy in his Senate office. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 186).

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Senator John F. Kennedy in his Senate Office, circa 1958/59. President's Collection/Senate/Folder 238. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

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February 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy receives a visit from a group of Girl Scouts from Fall River, Massachusetts. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 265).

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February 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy receives a visit from a group of Girl Scouts from Fall River, Massachusetts. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (President's Collection/Senate/F 265).

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Senator John F. Kennedy meets with a group in his Senate Office in May of 1957. Photograph by Douglas Jones for LOOK Magazine, in the LOOK Magazine Collection, Library of Congress.

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July, 1959 In his Senate office, Senator John F. Kennedy confers with his brother, Robert Kennedy, chief counsel to the McClelllan Committee. Photograph by John Vachon for LOOK Magazine, in the LOOK Magazine Collection, Library of Congress.

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August 1959 Senator John F. Kennedy in his Senate Office. Original LOOK Magazine number 8405-1-26. Photograph by John Vachon for LOOK Magazine, in the LOOK Magazine Collection, Library of Congress.

The office as it looks today.