Exclusive | Decades after his death, JFK Jr.s top aide still ponders the what-ifs including a presidential run

Twenty-seven years after his tragic death, JFK Jr.’s chief of staff still wonders what life would be like if he were alive.“The ‘what if’ never goes away, no matter what.It’s always that feeling of like, ‘Where would I be now? What would I be doing?'” RoseMarie Terenzio told The Post ahead of the anniversary of John F.

Kennedy Jr.’s death on July 16, 1999.“My guess is I’d probably be helping to build a presidential library in New York.”Terenzio, who worked for JFK Jr.for five years at George magazine, learned of his presidential aspirations when she asked him why he wasn’t running for NYC mayor.“And he said, ‘Well, how many mayors do you know who become president?'” she recalled.The Bronx native, who penned the memoir “Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss,” said Kennedy, who became her close friend and confidant, was looking to serve as governor of New York first.“I think he wanted to, at some point, run for governor when they wanted him to run for the Senate.

We talked about that,” she said.“His thing was, as a governor, you’re like a CEO, you’re running a state.And he felt that as a senator, you couldn’t make your own decisions.”Terenzio was actually staying at the Tribeca loft where Kennedy lived with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, when the plane he was piloting to his cousin’s wedding crashed, killing them and Bessette’s sister, Lauren.Kennedy had invited her to stay at the apartment on North Moore Street that weekend after he overheard her on the phone trying to get her air conditioner fixed on a 90-degree Friday.“He’s like, ‘Who are you yelling at?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not yelling, I’m just freaking out.

I have no AC,'” she recalled.“He was like, ‘Well, why don’t you just stay at our place, because we’re not gonna be there.’ It was really nice.”A little after midnight, she received a call at the apartment from Carole Radziwill, the wife of Kennedy’s cousin and ...