NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of President John F. Kennedy endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he could inspire Americans in the same way her father once did.

''I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,'' Caroline Kennedy wrote in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times. ''But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president -- not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.''

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