Ambassador to Great Britain, father of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy. TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, December 2, 1941. Kennedy again refuses a speaking invitation from Benjamin Franklin of Associated Executive Clubs. In part, “I sincerely claim that nobody today that is not in possession of all the facts that the government epople [sic] have accumulated can possibly give a true picture of what conditions really are. So for that reason anything I might say at this time would not be particularly helpful in this very depressing situation.” In 1938, he was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James (United Kingdom). Kennedy, of Irish descent, had little concern for the British, supported a policy of United States isolationism, and had no problem with Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. He resigned from office in 1940 as he disagreed with Roosevelt's determination to involve the USA in the Second World War. In fine condition, with two horizontal mailing folds. R&R COA.
