This was when Joe Kennedy was running for Congress in Tip O'Neill's recently vacated seat, and everyone was talking about the "Kennedy Mystique." Although she was an old school liberal, she did not have favorable things to say about Ted Kennedy. She said he knew John Kennedy when he as a young man, and that John said his brother Ted was "nothing but trouble." JFK (the real one, not Kerry) also said Ted had zero intelligence compared to his brother Robert, and that his father constantly caught Ted lying to him and stealing family money.
When I think back on this, I realize that Ted was the "runt" of the family---he had the least amount of brains, least amount of morals, and the worst character of any of them.