My problems) with the Kennedy's was the mafia's being good enough for them to use to get to the oval office, but their then trying to absolve themselves of all that by playing the white hat and to the mafia's black hat once they got to the WH.
There was also the way those inbreeds tried to snob Onassis as some sort of eurotrash hoodlum that 'wasn't worthy' of Kennedy's friendship, etc.
Not to mention the way they made nice with the Third Reich.
I simply cannot stand that family. Much less respect them.
By numerous accounts, the mafia didn't like the Kennedy ingratitude, either.
Bobby Kennedy, whom old Joe had insisted be appointed Attorney General (even though he'd never even tried a case in a courtroom) had a really wild hair up his rear about busting "organized crime" leaders. His brother got elected (with more than a little help from his father's friends) and then Bobby forgot that you're supposed to dance with the ones that brought you. Or at the very least, don't use all the power of the AG's office to go after them....
It's interesting that after his brother's assasination in Dallas, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy stayed completely away from the Warren Commission investigation. He was devastated, described as being in terrible anguish for months, but the most ruthless and vindicitive of old Joe's sons wouldn't have any part in investigating his brother's murder.
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.