If Kennedy lived or Johnson had not capitalized on his death, civil rights legislation would not have made it when it did.

For some reason the Kennedys have been treated as royalty. And no one talks about the shady doings of his father Joseph Kennedy. I was in college in the Boston area during the 1960 election and heard some bad stuff from a local.

In the 1964 election there was a Kennedy, no relation, who was in jail for graft that was re-elected in a town just North of Boston.

Yep, the name causes loss of rationality.