Posted on 05/06/2006 2:13:42 PM PDT by bkepley
- He formed alliances with crime bosses in major markets, among them Boston, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. These would come in handy years later when his son was running for national office. Among his mob associates was Frank Costello, former boss of the Luciano crime family, who bragged, "I helped Joe Kennedy get rich." Sam Giancana, who would later figure prominently in Jack's presidency, called Joe "one of the biggest crooks who ever lived."
St. Mary's Citty would certainly meet my criteria for historicism; but, I do not know the area. Would it still be rural enough to suit me?
Oh what's the matter?????
Why can't you have an intelligent conversation about something you don't like?????
To bad for you....
And stop with the personal attacks, they are most unbecoming to you....
Seriously, HarleyLady27, it is time for you to stop these childish personal attacks. I simply do not have time for this kind of stupid stuff and your personal attacks are growing tiresome.
And, not to put too fine a point on it ... your posts are seriously off topic and violate one of FRee Republics rules against senseless flame wars.
Knock it off. This has gone far enough.
I have no interest in engaging with you in a tit for tat, childish squabble. You adore the Kennedys and popular culture. I do not. People who do, react just as you have reacted to any rational discussion of the Kennedys ... and become quite emotional and tedious as you have done.
There are plenty of other FReepers who appear to relish constant squabbling; and, who share your "enjoyment" of popular culture and media icons. I am not one of them.
If you post to me again ... on any topic ... ever ... I will hit Report Abuse and let the Mods deal with the matter.
"something else going on between Joe and his daughter..."
-------see the 1974 film Chinatown, with the great John Huston as Noah Cross---could have been a model for Joe Kennedy,
Knock it off.
I was reading a book on the 1960 election a few years ago and JFK told his closest advisors that if he didn't win the nomination, he was going to vote for, and quietly back, Nixon in the general election. If he were around today, he'd definitely be somewhere in the middle of the GOP Senators we now have. And there's little doubt he'd be embarrassed half to death by his brother, the U-Boat Commander.
Joe Kennedy was also a Nazi sympathizer.
Yep, and he was an ardent anglophobe who still managed to be appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James. Not one of FDR's brightest ideas in the realm of foreign policy...
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