McGrory wrote extensively about the Kennedy presidency . She and JFK were close in age , both of Irish descent and from Boston . McGrory 's exchange with Daniel Patrick Moynihan after the president 's assassination was quoted widely : " We will never laugh again , " said McGrory . Moynihan , who worked for President Kennedy responded , " Mary , we will laugh again . But we will never be young again . " McGrory was assigned by the '' Star '' to travel with Robert F. Kennedy during his ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign and became close to his wife Ethel at the time
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