JFK's wife coined the expression to describe the charisma of her husband in the few 'golden' years before his assassination. She'd recently seen the Broadway musical of that name. Of course, she was unaware, as was the world at large, that her husband's morals were far removed from those of a member of the Round Table. Sex-obsessed, he would bang anything with a backbone, even leaving important White House meetings it is said, for a quick knee-trembler in a cupboard and then returning.

Yes, of Irish extraction. The patriarch, Joseph Kennedy, was an appalling man. No friend of Britain or democracy for that matter, he was a rabid anti-semite, Hitler sympathiser and later close ally of the infamous senator McCarthy. Roosevelt appointed him US Ambasador to the UK in 1938 but his defeatist attitude/Hitler sympathies, came to a head in 1940 in our darkest hour: the Battle of Britain, when he gave the famous quote "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here." Roosevelt sacked him, scuppering any dreams he had of becoming president one day. Hence, his obsessive dedication from then on to occupy the White House via his children.

John

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