Peter Kanellis
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250 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
Peter Kanellis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you go back and read his letters, which have been collected in a book that one of his granddaughters pulled together, his letters to his children,
it quickly becomes apparent that he was the nurturing parent of the two.
It was Rose Kennedy that was sort of more austere and more of a threatening figure to the children.
Joe Kennedy was loving and warm and always rushing home when one of his kids was sick.
He especially took on the job of mentoring the sons, which was almost certainly a sexist double standard, but a little bit of an agreement between him and Rose that Rose could be the sort of dominant parent for the girls, but he was going to be the dominant parent for the boys.
And the boys really looked up to him.
There was no hint of any sort of rebellion or resentment.
They trusted him.
Now, in his own career, he was a man of tremendous ambition.
And wealth was just, in his mind, sort of a stepping stone to greater power.
And he famously had his own career sort of truncated by expressing concerns about World War II and about whether the United States should really be involved before Pearl Harbor in the war in Europe.
and suggestions that he was sympathetic in some ways to the Germans or at least deferential to German power.
And he then realized, being a very shrewd person, that after World War II and after everything, that that would be a fatal obstacle to his own career.
So he set about making sure that his son Jack, the eldest son to survive the war—there had been an older brother, Joe Jr., who died during the war—
But he set about making sure that Jack would be able to stand on his own two feet and not be too tainted by him.
And the way he did it was encouraging Jack to make his academic thesis at Harvard about appeasement and the evils of appeasement.
And, you know, he called it Why England Slept.
It was about people who were doing what his own father was accused of doing.
So I think that truly the Kennedys believed that that would be a way of sort of laundering the Kennedy name, showing that Jack was different from the old man.
There was a tremendous amount of stage management, but there's no evidence that the sons resented it.
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