“He inherited his sub-par intellect from his mother, who was lovely but stupid..”
I don’t really know if Jackie Kennedy Onassis was stupid or not, but I doubt she was any stupider than the Kennedys who do not impress as intellectuals in any way.
She was smart enough to keep her children away from that clan of Irish hooligans after their father’s murder, she was smart enough for Ari Onassis who I feel sure was very smart and seemed not to like “arm-candy” as you put it but went for more accomplished women (who were, no shocker, quite beautiful. As Rush Limbaugh rightly points out: feminism was advanced so unattractive women c could have access to power, and I thought that myself in the 1970s when the bar burning and baby killing was just beginning - and I’m of the female persuasion myself.)
She also buried a child, had her husband’s brains blow into her lap, escaping death herself by merest luck, and kept on ticking. She got a job later in life and had had a job before she married JFK when she certainly did not need to work an any time.
I’m glad she did not live to see her son die.
Another little-reported factoid on Jackie O is that she took up with a moneybags later in life, who also managed her money. Otherwise, she would have squandered it much like her in-laws did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tempelsman
The two began their lengthy relationship in 1980, five years after the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ second husband Aristotle Onassis.[9][30] In 1988, Tempelsman moved into Onassis’s Fifth Avenue penthouse apartment in New York City.[3] During their relationship, Tempelsman handled Onassis’s finances, quadrupling the $26 million secured from her late husband’s estate.[31]