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The Obama presidency could easily be seen as a trick put together by Oprah, with an assist from Caroline Kennedy, who turned the tide overnight on Hillary Clinton the day after The New York Times endorsed her in her run for president in 2008. Looked like a done deal, as it did ever since Life magazine picked up on her speech in college 40 years ago and declared hers the face of a new generation. But the next day Caroline placed her own op-ed in the Times endorsing Barack Obama. Political history pivoted on that morning. That day, Uncle Teddy saw the distinct possibility of Obama, whom American knew then only as a politically inexperienced black man from Chicago, being president, because America responded to Caroline Kennedy. It was the definitive moment: Kennedy kung fu was stronger than Clinton kung fu.

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