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...spent presiding over family affairs. The Kennedy home in suburban McLean, Va., is superbly managed by a French cook, a governess, a social secretary, a gardener, a regular cleaning woman and various fill-ins. But Joan pays all the family's personal bills, oversees both the McLean and Hyannisport homes, writes endless rounds of letters, and does such thoughtful chores as sending snapshots to parents of children who attend the three Kennedy youngsters' birthday parties. Such traits come naturally to the daughter of a prosperous New York ad executive. Raised in Westchester, she attended stylish Manhattanville College, where...
Sightseeing boats this summer were cruising off the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport blaring a tour guide's spiel from loudspeakers. When Rose Kennedy finally complained to the selectmen, they persuaded the guides to turn down their speakers when they pass the compound and refrain from broadcasting across the water any mention of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy...
...speech pattern and even his heavy shock of hair are pure Kennedy. His two brothers became his campaign managers-at Teddy's suggestion. His wife Mieke, a beautiful blonde he met in The Netherlands, and three children tend to make his Riverside base a kind of Hyannisport West. In Washington, the Tunneys often give quiet dinner parties at their mansion; the wine comes from a well-stocked cellar. Their social circle is an orbit close to the Kennedys, and includes both political and media names...
...July 10, the sons of Robert Kennedy and Eunice Shriver allegedly joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house...
...years ago this weekend, they gathered before a fireplace in Hyannisport to rough out plans for J.F.K.'s run for the presidency. They all were there, handsome as Irish thoroughbreds, their eyes bright as dimes-Jack, Bobby, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Pat, Ethel, Jackie, Joe and Rose. Together, attended by their Irish mafia, the Kennedys burst upon the decade to become its dominating political myth...