Considering what she allowed Joe Sr. to do to her namesake, I gotta disagree. IMO, Eunice has made a career of doing penance for her parents' treatment of her sister.
...one seriously messed up family with enough ill gotten money to do as they damned well see fit.
True. Maybe I just should have left it that she taught them manners, how to behave as if they were just as good as those of the most select Bostonian birth, and not Chicago mobsters. And the press ate that up.
Now, of course, nobody is taught manners, so it’s less important whether you have any.
Seriously messed up is right.
JFK sent his wife and children away during the missile crisis but had Mimi come to DC. I suspect he wanted to make sure she wouldn’t be sobbing and blabbing to the press if DC and the White House got blown up.