That started when he allowed the swimmer to write the education bill.
Federal funding for education has risen what 80 percent with no appreciable rise in test scores the result.
Kennedy turned right around and at an event honoring his late brother where the President said glowing things about J.F.K. the swimmer insulted the hell out of Bush.
Don't you imagine that EMK told GWB in advance that he would be making critical remarks to satisfy the Democrat base and that GWB should not be offended in the least because it was "just politics". HST once told the same thing to his "friend" Herbert Hoover, whom HST genuinely came to admire in their mutual retirement years.