Peter Kanellis
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250 appearances
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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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As I had said before, it's like the father was sort of a master orchestrator.
And there were a few like sarcastic quips that Jack Kennedy made when he was president that suggested, you know, he wanted his father to get off his back a little bit.
But it was more made in humor and almost for political reasons to try to sort of establish himself as his own man.
I think they very much revered their father and their father was very much pulling the strings.
That goes double and triple with Ted because when you're the youngest child and you feel sort of overshadowed by your brothers, as he certainly did, you rely on your father's good opinion very heavily.
And so...
In 1962, when Ted Kennedy wanted to run for the Senate from Massachusetts, Jack and Bobby Kennedy did not want him to run.
They felt like it was too many Kennedys.
It would look like a power grab.
There was a vague suggestion that Ted really wasn't worthy.
He really didn't deserve it.
He hadn't earned it.
He hadn't done a lot of things.
And it was Joe Kennedy who stuck by Ted and insisted that Ted should run.
I think if Joe
were not still in the game during that period, which was just around the time that he had started having strokes, I think that Jack and Bobby would have absolutely forbidden Ted from running in 1962.
But their father was adamant.
Their father saw real potential in Ted.
Their father believed in Ted.
Their father wanted Ted to go into the Senate in 1962.
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