Ah, yes, the hype. Football star! Military man!
About that football, from the Harvard Crimson:
"Kennedy was a noted member of Harvard's football team during his college career, scoring the only Harvard touchdown in the Harvard-Yale Game his senior year. He turned down an offer of interest from the Green Bay Packers, instead opting to attend law school at the University of Virginia."
Even the Crimson can't get away with calling him a "star." He was "noted," which means he was a Kennedy, and by golly, Harvard better have him on the football team! And that touchdown is apparently the only highlight of his "star" status. No other stats, just that one touchdown, quoted over and over again. And, yeah, I'm sure the Packers were drooling over him, and he had dreams of playing pro ball. (Rolls eyes).
And that manly-man military service? Also from the Crimson:
At the end of his freshman year, Kennedy was suspended after having another student take a Spanish exam in his place. He spent the next two years serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Paris before re-enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1953.
Translation: he was kicked out of Harvard, and ol' Joe figured now's a good time to add military service to his CV, as long as the spoiled brat doesn't have to actually see combat, and disgrace himself and his family legend. Voila! An MP in Paris! (With no disrespect intended to those vets who may have wound up in similar assignments without a Joe Kennedy pulling the strings.)
You didn’t say anything much, you just said it with a sneer as though a sneer is substantive.
How powerful do you think a Kennedy was in 1955 do you think the other families of Harvard students then were just ordinary folk that were totally impressed with the Kennedy family of 1955?