[GOPJ]

...an interesting vignette -- JFK and Joe Sr are arguing that the slightly older German photographer (the one with some Hitler connections) JFK was dating at the time wasn't right for him. She recounted that, when JFK would storm out to cool down, Joe Sr would hit on her.

Yeah, but did he drool and claim it was chap stick? Or demand an end to WALLS but lived in a house with ten foot walls? Inquiring minds and all...

[SunkenCiv]

After his stroke, Joe Sr could only make one sound, “no”; there’s a poignant anecdote (same book) from JFK’s presidency — he was told that The Ambassador was on the line (that was what they called Joe Sr during that period), and JFK took the call, then he did a facepalm while his father’s voice could be heard coming from the earpiece, “no, no, no, no, no, no, no...”