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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horror that have gone before, to encourage her own sons to go into politics if they are so inclined. "For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage," she says. "You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got...
...missed over the next 20 years. "Bobby spent so much time," recalls Ethel. "If one of the boys was having trouble just catching a football, Bobby would go out and work with him on it, tell him what he was doing wrong and practice with him until he got...
George Skakel was a self-made former railway clerk who never forgot his humble origins, and used to caution the family, "We could all be thrown out on the street tomorrow." He usually appeared on the estate in old clothes, and got a great kick out of being mistaken for the gardener. Mother was Ann Brannack, a huge (200 Ibs. plus), cheery, moonfaced Irishwoman who relished a joke even more than her husband did?except perhaps when Joey the ram, the family's pet goat, butted her through a glass door. Mrs. Skakel was in dead earnest about only...
Though never scholarly, Ethel always got on well at school. "She had enough drawbacks," says Brother Jim, "not to be envied, and she excelled enough to be honored." Athletics were her particular forte. Swimming, skiing, horsemanship?Ethel won competitions in them all, though she doesn't much like to talk about it now. "They were all country-club teams," she says, "and that sounds so trivial in this...
...industries than Howard Hughes, and protecting just about every nation with the exception of the Soviet Union and china. What are we becoming? A vast war machine. We are a military-industrial nation. I'm not a political theorist, nor do I pretend to be, but man, we've got to stop and think this over. This must stop before we start taking over our own government...