Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>.\u00a0 The\u00a0David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies\u00a0at Brigham Young University is named in his honor.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll share here a story from Brother Kennedy, which I hope I\u2019m recalling correctly and not garbling.\u00a0 He told it to a small group that included me:\u00a0 Many years ago, while the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the rest of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization were in exile in Tunisia \u2014 so, roughly, sometime between 1985 and 1993 \u2014 Arafat invited Brother Kennedy and the late Senator George McGovern to come to PLO headquarters.\u00a0 He was obviously trying to find his way out of isolation and looming irrelevance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a trivial thing but, when Kennedy and McGovern arrived, they were almost immediately served with some simple food and drink.\u00a0 (Traditional Arab hospitality.)\u00a0 McGovern was given tea or coffee.\u00a0 (I don\u2019t remember which.)\u00a0 Kennedy was given orange juice.\u00a0 They had, it turned out, already researched him.\u00a0 And not only him.\u00a0 In the course of their conversation, Arafat thanked Kennedy for the scholarships that BYU had given to Palestinian students, but wondered whether it might be possible to increase the percentage of Muslim recipients just a little bit; thus far, he noted, Christians seemed to be disproportionately represented among the scholarship recipients.\u00a0 And one more thing, he said:\u00a0 If the BYU Jerusalem Center should ever be in danger from Palestinian violence where it sits in Arab East Jerusalem, BYU should call him.\u00a0 He would intervene.<\/p>\n
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While driving through Randolph, though, we also noticed an old building with a sign in front, identifying it as Wilford Woodruff\u2019s house.\u00a0 So we stopped and had a nice chat with the lady there.\u00a0 It turns out that Elder Woodruff had helped his son build the house in 1871, I think, and that his fifth (and last) wife, Sarah, had occupied it.\u00a0 Anyway, I had previously had no idea (or hadn\u2019t paid attention to the fact) that Wilford Woodruff had had a connection to Randolph.<\/p>\n
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Then we drove to Huntsville, the birthplace of President David O. McKay (1873-1970).\u00a0 We drove by his old white home there.\u00a0 I\u2019m so ridiculously old that, for me, President McKay was \u201cmy prophet\u201d when I growing up.\u00a0 I can still recall the January 1970 day on which I found out that he had died.\u00a0 I even remember the person who told me of his death \u2014 one of my fellow high school seniors, a bright and funny fellow named Russell Austin.\u00a0 \u201cAre you saddened at the passing of Dr. McKay?\u201d he asked me.\u00a0 It was the first that I had heard.\u00a0 And the \u201cDr. McKay\u201d thing sticks in my memory because President McKay had no doctorate and because I had never heard him called that.\u00a0 Curiously, I had experienced a memorable dream just the night before.\u00a0 (I can still see part of it very clearly in my mind, more than half a century later.)\u00a0 It was a pitch dark night, and a line of very sad people were moving slowly along from the top right of the \u201cimage \u201cto the lower left.\u00a0 They were looking downward and to the side, and somehow I knew that they were walking slowly past the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Nauvoo at the end of June 1844, shortly after the mob had done its murderous work at Carthage Jail.\u00a0 That\u2019s all that i remember.\u00a0 I woke up strangely oppressed and, when I heard the news about President McKay at school later that morning, I thought the timing of the dream significant.\u00a0 I still do.<\/p>\n
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