Peter Kanellis
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250 appearances
1 recordings
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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I also think the father was probably wise enough to recognize that
Ted Kennedy had some personality advantages over his brothers.
Now, their personas have changed so much over time and in memory and because of the assassinations.
And Ted himself has played a role in sort of molding the Kennedy myth and mystique.
But Ted had much, much more of a common touch than Jack or Bobby Kennedy had.
Jack Kennedy was very much a sort of look-but-don't-touch kind of politician, an intellectual, a performer, but not somebody who was a glad-hander, not somebody who had close, intimate friends, not somebody who was able to make a connection to people in all walks of life.
Ted Kennedy could, and he attributed it to some of his time in the Army where he was kind of a grunt in the Army.
He had to, you know, bunk with guys who had no money and who had no prominent name to support them.
And I think you can see throughout Ted's career that –
He genuinely did have a clear sense of what other people in the country were going through and what people of lower means and no means had.
And Jack and Bobby did not have that same sort of instinctive feel for people.
I think it's unimaginable pressure is what it adds up to.
You know, not only if you think about that period just before the Chappaquiddick incident, after his brother Robert was assassinated, he realizes that he suddenly is the head of the family.
Old Joe is still alive, but is greatly disabled by a stroke.
And what has been bequeathed to him is, first of all, the sense of grief from all of these losses.
And it wasn't just Jack and Bobby.
It was their sister Kathleen, who was like sort of a second mother to Ted.
She died in a plane crash.
There was a sister Rosemary who had a sort of botched lobotomy procedure and ended up severely impaired.
I think that, you know, as the youngest child, you have this heightened sense of all of your older siblings.
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