John F. Fitzgerald 1946, when John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy decided to run for Congress, 83-year-old Honey Fitz helped him plan his campaign strategy. At the victory celebration, Fitzgerald danced an Irish jig, sang "Sweet Adeline," and predicted that his grandson would someday occupy the White House. Shortly after his election to the presidency, President Kennedy renamed the presidential yacht the "Honey Fitz" in honor of his maternal grandfather. On September 18, 1889, Fitzgerald married his second cousin Mary Josephine "Josie" Hannon. She was a daughter of Michael Hannon and Mary Ann Fitzgerald. On October 2, 1950, Fitzgerald died in Boston at the age
American Promise (yacht) became the first featured film in the PBS series, "Adventure". It first aired in March 1987. Morgan's voyage was also the focus of a series of psychological papers, including an entire issue of the "Journal of Personality" devoted to analyzing Morgan's life, his experience of the voyage, and the ways in which it may have affected his personality development. American Promise (yacht) The American Promise was a yacht used by Dodge Morgan in 1985-1986 for a record-breaking 150-day, 27,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the planet. The "American Promise" is a 60-foot Bermuda rigged sloop, boat that was designed by 1974 America's