cville deac
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I never got the Kennedy family fascination. Joe Sr. was a bootlegger, market manipulator and Nazi sympathizer. Okay, I won't hold the bootlegger thing against him. I remember reading that during the 1960 primary a reporter asked Harry Truman if the reason he was opposing Kennedy was his catholicism. Harry responded, "it's not the pope, it's the pop." Some years earlier during an argument with Joe, Harry had to be pulled off Joe when he tried to strangle Joe. And it was Joe's mob connections which bought Jack Illinois. But apparently Bobby hadn't gotten that memo when he became AG.