Caroline Kennedy
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Australia since 2022. Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. She is a member of the Kennedy family, and the only surviving child of US president John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Caroline with her father aboard the yacht Honey Fitz off the coast of Hyannis, Massachusetts at age five, August 25, 1963.
Caroline Kennedy (right) with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President Gerald Ford in Concord, Massachusetts, April 1975
Caroline Kennedy in 1999
The 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for president and vice president. The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention". Denver last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Obama became the party's first nonwhite nominee, and nominee of African descent, for president. Senator Joe Biden from Delaware was nominated for vice president.
Permanent Chair Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference at the Colorado Convention Center the day before the start of the convention, flanked by the three co-chairs.
Democratic National Committee Secretary Alice Travis Germond opens the roll call of the states during the third day of the convention.
Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
The 2008 Democratic National Convention was held in Denver's Pepsi Center