Peter Kanellis
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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That helped him to get over the Chappaquiddick stain.
But the Chappaquiddick stain, I think, effectively killed his national opportunities.
Well, I think a lot of it is changing times.
You had referred a little bit before to the era when the media looked the other way, when politicians were often drinking and carousing and engaging in affairs.
And that certainly was the case with Jack Kennedy.
It was an era when all politicians tried to present themselves as role models for the average American family.
So they're always standing there with their perfectly turned out wives and children.
They were all men at that era, almost all men, and trying to sort of model a kind of 1950s ideal of the American family.
And then we approached that earlier, talking about Gary Hart and the Bill Clinton era and things like that, when everything swung completely in the other direction and cynicism about politics took hold.
And it was almost like presumed that these ideal images that they were sort of presenting were all fakes and that they were all having affairs and carousing behind the scenes and things like that.
And
In some ways, you were exposing sort of the hypocrisy of the whole system when people were writing and discussing politicians' extramarital dalliances.
But there's no question that Kennedy would have feared the perception that he and Mary Jo were having a sexual relationship.
It certainly violated people's sense of what a proper family man should be doing with his time on a July evening in 1969.
Well, I have a view of their father that sort of runs a little bit counter to some of the depictions in these Kennedy movies and these Kennedy TV shows.
You know, the common view of him is that he was ruthless.
He was a man who made hundreds of millions of dollars in sometimes legally questionable activities, including liquor trafficking.
bootlegging areas like that.
But then he went to Hollywood and financed movies, and there was always a hint of something slightly disreputable about the way that he was aggressively making money.
However, I think he was an idealistic person, and he also was a sort of emotionally attuned person.
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