Bush/Kennedy interactions go back to before WWII, and W's grandfather Prescott was Sen. from CT concurrently with JFK. The inner workings of these families are even more interesting since GHWB became a prominent Texan during the LBJ era (with it's own interaction with the Kennedy family). Sounds like an idea for a nice book ... perhaps already written for all I know. Heat of the moment politics would color any current interpretation, so I would like to read the history of all this about 50 years from now (not likely). Still, it remains a fact that the victor gets to write the history. So, GO W!
Vallandigham, Clement
(1820-71), politician. Vallandigham, a Democrat, represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1857 to 1863. An opponent of federal policy during the Civil War, he became a leader of the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, in the North. Vallandigham opposed Abraham Lincoln's Civil War policies and advocated compromise with the South, leading to his imprisonment in 1863. Lincoln ordered his release and banishment to the Confederacy. Escaping to Canada and eventually to Ohio, Vallandigham never regained political stature.