Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Hōngongoi o te tau 1941, ko Hickory Hill te kaainga o te kaiwhakawa hou o te Kooti Nui o te United States a Robert H. Jackson me tana wahine, a Irene, i te 1955, i muri i tona matenga, i hokona a Hickory Hill ki te Senate o Amerika a John F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) me tana wahine, a Jacqueline. I muri i te
1956 Democratic National Convention, i hokona te whare ki te tuakana o John, a Robert F. Kennedy me tana wahine, a Ethel, he whanau e tipu haere ana (kua tekau ma tahi nga tamariki). I a ia e noho ana i Hickory Hill, ka noho a Robert Kennedy hei Kai-whakawa mo te United States i te 1961; he Kaunihera o te United States i te 1965; me te kaitono perehitini i te 1968.