JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

at his inaugural ball in 1961. She was 20.


details here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349503/Nancy-Pelosi-I-partied-President-John-F-Kennedy-heres-picture-prove-it.html

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Very cool!

[ReRe]

2. Sweet!

She just might be Speaker of the House again in 2015.

2014!

[IronLionZion]

6. i hope so! nt

[No Vested Interest]

3. Sweet. I remember those dresses with bouffant petticoats

under the dress.

[arely staircase]

4. + 1 nt

[MADem]

5. That can't be the inaugural ball--he wore white tie.

That looks like one of the WH formal dinners--not a state dinner, but a formal dinner.

Here he is making the rounds on the night of his inauguration--note the full "soup-n-fish" outfit:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/John_F._Kennedy_Inaugural_Ball,_20_January_1961.jpg

I believe that was the "pre-Inaugural gala" which happened the NIGHT BEFORE he was sworn in, and the President-ELECT gave a brief speech at that thing, and he wore black tie at that one. Here is the speech he gave:

[lonestarnot]

7. Thanks for sharing.

[lonestarnot]

8. Thanks for sharing.

[treestar]

9. Cool little piece of history

Really neat. She must remember where she was on 11/22/63.