“I’ll never understand the Kennedy mystique.”
Well, the French put up with Louis Napoleon III, because he was Napoleon’s nephew.
“I’ll never understand the Kennedy mystique.”
The press loved him because for a brief period he worked as a journalist, so they saw him as one of their own. He was a mediocrity as president, and the fact he was killed was what elevated him to sainthood for the liberals (and, the funny thing is, if he were alive today, and held the same views he held when he was alive, he would not be welcome in the Democrat Party because he would be considered by the Dems to be too right wing!).
Jacqui squandered it when she “married” Onassis. However, she was paid “royally.”