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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Caroline Kennedy did interviews with the Big Three New York newspapers and a cable news interview. But the stories and reaction to them didn't exactly paint her in the best light. The New York Daily News describes her as “defiant;” The New York Post writes that Obama's encouraging her, includes that she “all but acknowledged that she used drugs decades ago” and lays out a Q&A before writing a story on her Martha’s Vineyard estate and estimates that her fortune could be as much as $400 million; the New York Times in its headline described her as “forceful but elusive.” Kennedy did an interview with local cable news channel NY1 and said her Kennedy name may have actually kept her from running in the past. "If my last name was not Kennedy, maybe I would have run for office a long time ago,” Kennedy said. On having a sense of entitlement: "It's not a way I've ever lived my life. … I can tell you in our family, in particular, there is a sense we ... (link)

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