5/30/2023 0 Comments JACK KENNEDY by Chris Matthews![]() ![]() ![]() As his sister Eunice remarked, he had “a gift for estrangement.” No one on Bobby’s enemies list was as despised as Lyndon Johnson. Joseph McCarthy, and became a senator and presidential candidate himself. He spent his youth in awe of his two older brothers, quietly honing a ruthlessness, decisiveness, and “righteous pugnacity” that would serve him well when he managed Jack’s political campaigns, worked for Sen. The story is familiar: as the third son of an “overbearing, manipulative, and ever critical” father, Bobby longed for Joseph Kennedy’s approval. Kennedy’s life in two books ( Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, 2011, and Kennedy and Nixon, 1996), the author now turns to Bobby, revealing his essential role in his brother’s success and the trajectory of his own life in politics. “All that youth and hope and sense of change: you couldn’t be alive and not feel it,” he writes. Hardball anchor Matthews ( Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, 2013, etc.) was much inspired by the Kennedy brothers. ![]() Recounting Robert Kennedy’s political career. ![]()
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