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Husband's absences. >> jackie i think probably being married to a senator would compare with being a doctor's wife. a senator must be on call at all times. >> i suppose it is like being married to a doctor in that they have late hours, they go away at a moment's notice. work late. >> jack's affairs are not the only thing he's hiding. >> the great secret about jack kennedy is not his sex life. it's his health. he is a sick man. >> the joke always was that if a mosquito bit jack, the mosquito would get sick. >> it wasn't a day of jack's life that he wasn't in pain. >> jack suffered from a very d...

Finally makes a momentous decision. >> he was having an operation that could cost him his life. >> the surgery goes very badly. he develops a life-threatening infection. >> his father wonders am i going to lose now my second son. >> he's actually given last rites. and yet miraculously he pulls through. >> the doctors had inserted a steel plate to try to settle his back, and jackie has to take over the job of trying to change the dressings on this gruesome wound. >> jack recovers with jackie's support, but he believes his days may be numbered. >> if you think you are going to die young, then yo...

Earth. >> tension mounts around convention hall in chicago and democrats stream in for the big convention. >> it was not long after jack's back operation, but he wanted to prove to everyone that he was vital and fit. >> at the democratic national convention, jack surprises everyone by announcing his candidacy for vice president. >> jack looks at bobby and says, bobby, would you call dad and give him the news? >> joe kennedy wanted his son to be president of the united states, but he didn't want him to try for vice president and lose and somehow blot his copybook before he was ready for the rea...

Elected president, just over 100 years after arriving penniless in boston, the kennedys are now the most powerful family in the world. >> as a catholic it was something quite remarkable. but john f. kennedy was an inspirational figure, whatever your faith. >> it is the climax of one of the closest, most dramatic elections in american history. >> we were there, smiling and hugging each other. a guy not favored to win, and he won. what a result. >> the election may have been a close one, but i think that there is general agreement by all of our citizens that a supreme national effort will be nee...

>> daddy was organized, he was straightforward, he held people accountable. and jack liked that. >> sometimes in politics you need somebody to be the bad cop. bobby was willing to be the bad cop. >> the charismatic jack, with his enforcer brother bobby, defeats henry cabot lodge to win the senate seat. >> kennedy wins what was one of the biggest upsets in maybe the state's political history. >> it was jack's victory in 1952 that gave kennedy the idea that he, in fact, could win the presidency. >> but if senator kennedy wants to make the white house his own, he needs to follow his father's advi...