His political career began in 1934, when Roosevelt appointed him to
head the SEC on the theory that it takes a thief to catch one. In 1938
Joe became U.S. ambassador to Britain, but resigned in 1940 due to his
Cliveden Set sympathies for a policy of appeasement toward Hitler. After
the war, Joseph Kennedy arranged favorable publicity and purchased votes
for his son John. After JFK won in 1960, Joe instructed him to appoint
Bobby as attorney general. Judging from this excellent biography, throughout
his life Joseph Kennedy was a philanderer, an unprincipled manipulator, and
a power-hungry wheeler-dealer, who supervised and financed the careers of
his compliant sons. In 1961 he suffered a stroke. For the next eight years,
he watched speechlessly from a wheelchair, with questionable comprehension,
as one tragedy after another destroyed the dynasty he had created.
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