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Joe Junior was warned that his plane had a problem. Kathleen was on a small plane. Ted tried to find a pilot who would fly in the bad weather when his crash occurred [and it took the pilots life]." Recklessness was a family trait, and it affected others.

"they were always told they were better than everyone else, "Mary Lou McCarthy said. "Just like Hollywood starlet who says, 'I can get into this car and go 150 miles an hour if I want and the officer won't give me a ticket I give them an autograph, they think they can get away with anything. It's pitiful. The girl was paralyzed for life in a jeep driven by Joe II. Chappaquiddick took a life."

"Camelot existed only in the minds of the press."

Jeghegian was shot by the way the members of the family water on the house nude. "They often were nude walking around. Jack was the same way. There was nothing sacred about being private...a door would be open and someone would be getting out of a bathing suit into some clothes. It was Eunice or Pat or the president. "

Family invents fairytales to the media and the media reports them, on the condition of Joe's "improving health. "

Rose used to throw newspapers out the window when she was chauffeured. When warned, she giggled and said, "oh they know who I am."

Joe insists Jack make Bobby attorney general, even though Bobby had never gone to law school nor had a case in his life

Joe relies heavily on payouts to the Catholic Church, especially that in Boston and New York, for his son's election.

Joe sent expensive jewelry to female columnists, cash to others, and liquor to many.

Jack did what Joe wanted him to do, "George Smathers said "that included becoming president