Thanks for the summary. I'd heard the gist of that, though not some of the details you have there. I remember when Frank got mad at the Kennedys he smashed up a private landing pad he had built for them or something like that. . .Yes, the Kennedy connections get interesting. I didn't get into the full scope of that because of the focus on Reid but that whole area is intriguing.
Checkout Geroge Jacobs' book---very articulate guy---talented Black guy who had class enough to spill all the dirt after Frank died. Even though he could have done so earlier and was in financial straits for a long while.
Frank fired him after years of service b/c George accidentally met Mia in a disco and innocently danced with her. This was after the Frank/Mia split. Even though Frank used to put George in charge of keeping his women occupied-and out of trouble--that went for Ava, and Marilyn, too.
Frank was mercurial and not very predictable in his personal behavior.