![]() Kennedy did not want the portrait to look the way other artists had portrayed him. The portrait, symbolic of his unfinished presidency, hangs in the White House today. With this ornament we remember President Kennedy through his posthumous official White House portrait, made in 1970 by Aaron Shikler, the artist selected by the president’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. His legacy lives on in his youthful belief in America and his faith in America’s responsibilities to the world. ![]() Before his vibrant presidency was cut short by an assassin’s bullet on November 22, 1963, he had reinvigorated the American spirit. The youngest president since Theodore Roosevelt, Kennedy took office in January 1961, at age 43. ![]() The White House Historical Association’s 2020 Official White House Christmas Ornament honors John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States. ![]()
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