Word: kennedyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The family was the realization of Joe Kennedy's dreams of glory. "The measure of a man's success in life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a...
It is possible that Ted Kennedy, the one surviving son, will eventually emerge from the penumbra of Chappaquiddick to run for the presidency. If he does so, he will be alone in a way that neither his brothers nor his father could ever have anticipated. For now, with a tragic...
All of the other decades of his life, Joe Kennedy was a remarkably shrewd, hearty and charming man. He had the serenity of a man totally devoted to his family and the detachment of a lucidly ruthless financier. He moved with an Irish swagger among Presidents, movie stars and corporation...
Behind the Lines. Joe Kennedy had the fortune to be born in a Boston where, the Yankee hegemony notwithstanding, political and financial power was beginning to be possible for an Irishman. His grandfather had fled the potato famine in 1848; his father, Patrick J. Kennedy, became a saloon owner and...
In 1914, Kennedy realized another ambition. He married Rose Fitzgerald, the lithe, convent-schooled daughter of Boston's ebullient Mayor John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Borrowing $2,000 for a down payment, Kennedy bought a nine-room frame house in the Brookline section of Boston. The family needed the...