Alexandra Kerry, 30, explained that on a family boat outing, their golden retriever knocked the hamster, Licorice, in his cage off a dock.

Vanessa and Alexandra Kerry praised their father's rescue of a drowning pet hamster with the sisterly poise of a PBS special.

Thursday night, however, Alexandra Kerry described the circumstances of my rescue by her father after I had fallen off a pier in Massachusetts.

Her older sister is Alexandra Kerry.

They took a poke at Senator John Kerry's two daughters, mocking the story Alexandra Kerry told about the time her father rescued their drowning pet hamster.

"To every little girl her father is a hero - it's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is one," Alexandra Kerry said.

Alexandra Kerry, daughter of then U.S. Senator (now secretary of state) John Kerry, is a bartender in the film.

Alexandra Kerry campaigned with her sister Vanessa Kerry for their father's presidential bid in 2004.

They have two children together, Alexandra Kerry (born 1973) and Vanessa Kerry (born 1976).

In response to the Cheney visit to Hawaii, both Alexandra Kerry, the candidate's daughter, and former Vice President Al Gore, are headed there.