Age: 55.
Appearance: JFK's daughter.
Who is she? JFK's daughter. Also: an attorney, editor, fundraiser and philanthropist.
And what is she up to now? She is finally getting involved in the family business.
Being ludicrously rich? No, she has been in that for ages. The other family business.
Tragic deaths? Again, no, and that is not really a business. Not a viable one anyway.
What then? American politics.
Ah, that. Now that is a business. Is she running for the Senate or for Congress? Neither. She is not running for anything, in fact. She is, however, being vetted for the job of US ambassador to Japan.
Does that mean she has been offered it? Yup, and she is expected to announce that she will accept the role as soon as the selection panel are satisfied that being the daughter of a former president doesn't mean she is some kind of spy or robot.
So why her? Because diplomacy runs in the family. Her grandfather Joe was once ambassador to the UK, and her aunt Jean was Bill Clinton's ambassador to Ireland.
But does she have any kind of Japanese expertise? Nope, not at all.
Or, say, experience in politics? Not a huge amount, no. Specifically, one disastrous flirtation when she ran for a seat in the Senate five years ago. The would-be campaign – described by the Washington Post as "a surreal train wreck" – came off the tracks almost immediately when critics seized upon her verbal tic of repeating the words "you know" as evidence of a lack of political nous.
Was that a bit harsh? Well, you know, she did, you know, use the phrase 138 times in an interview with the New York Times and, you know, 168 times in a half-hour interview with NY One, including, at one point, four times in the same, you know, sentence.
Wow. That is intensely annoying. I know. Imagine how it sounds in Japanese.
Do say: "It's, you know, not who, you know, you know, it's what, you know, you know..."
Don't say: "... and also who, you know, knows you, or knows your, you know, famous family."
