NP -- Kennedys, Bushes

[Doug Millison]

The Kennedys were the thrilling, self-destroying dynasty. The Bushes 
are the dull, self-preserving one. "The Kennedys flew too close to 
the sun. The Bushes just ask for more pork rinds," says my friend 
Evan Thomas, who wrote "Robert Kennedy: His Life." [...] Even as 
raffish Kennedys laundered their past, infiltrating Wasp havens like 
Hyannis Port, marrying Miss Porter's School debutantes named Bouvier, 
giving white-glove teas for female voters during campaigns, effete 
Bushes roughened their edges, emigrating to macho West Texas as 
wildcatters, marrying Midland librarians and Mexican students, having 
barbecues for supporters.
--Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/opinion/07DOWD.html

...more than a few GR echoes therein, too, especially re the Kennedys 
and assassination.