The Presidency
As he did with many other things in modern politics, old Joe Kennedy, the family patriarch with megabucks and fevered ambition for his sons, may have played a part in bringing the evangelical aura to the modern presidency.
A few days after John Kennedy's election in 1960, Old Joe paced his apartment on Park Avenue in green slippers and bathrobe, trying to sound profound on being the father of a President. He was having a terrible time. So he switched the subject to Billy Graham, who had just played golf with the President-elect,down in Palm Beach and proclaimed to the press...
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