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He also lunched with nine Democratic Governors, accepted a keg of 46-year-old brandy from some New York doctors. Said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "We'll probably send it to the National Archives to age." Kennedy took in a show given by Caroline's kindergarten class and attended a party thrown by his staff. There he was coaxed into reading a Ted Sorensen-written speech that began: "Twoscore and six years ago, there was brought forth at Brookline, Mass. . . ." At night he and most of the Kennedys, plus such personal friends as Actor David Niven and Florida Senator George Smathers, cruised the Potomac on the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. This party, planned by Jackie, lasted nearly six hours, was enlivened by a thunder and lightning storm. Next day Kennedy placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, then helicoptered with Jackie to Maryland's Camp David for a mountain rest.