The Kennedy’s considered elected office a “family business”.
Treated for cocaine use as a teenager; went bar-crawling in Palm Beach, Fla., with his father and his cousin William Kennedy Smith, who was later acquitted at trial of raping a young woman that night; accused of shoving a security officer at Los Angeles International Airport; crashed his convertible into a concrete barrier at the Capitol while under the influence of prescription drugs.
“But I managed to succeed in a socially acceptable way, i.e. in the family business of politics, which if there were ever a business where you would think that would be the biggest death knell, it would be in politics.”