it was not easy writing about this part of joseph p. kennedy. cause as a irish catholic he had experienced hegemony himself. in 1960, the same thing would be said about his son. the joseph kennedy said about the jews 20 years earlier. namely that one could not be an irish catholic, one could not be a catholic, and a patriotic american at the same time. kennedy knew that that was false. he should have known that it was equally false about the jews was not the next call comes from tim in california. >> caller: hello there. good to hear you, professor. i have enjoyed all of your books. that question relates to joe wanted to appoint bobby as attorney general. can you tell us what his reasons were for that? >> yes. he understood that jack kennedy was the first irish catholic and that jack kennedy was popular among the electorate but not necessarily among washington insiders. he understood that every president has opponents who are out to get them. and he said to jack over and over again that you need someone who is loyal to you who will watch your bac

this week to become ambassador to zwra japan, for 200 points, which country was her grandfather joseph p. kennedydor to? >> crystal. >> the u.k. >> the u.k. is correct. >> 200 points for the champion. final question of the 200 point round, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg visited capitol hill and pronounced himself legislation on which issue would crystal early, josh. >> immigration. >> 200 points for the challenger. now we move to the much an tis palted 300 point r0u7bd. this is where everything gets crazy. a minute 20 to go. kiss tal 600, josh 500. evan 300. paul skune was the governor general of what small caribbean nation when it was envaded by the united states under ronald reagan in 1983 josh 3 seconds freeze, crystal. >> grenada. >> 300 points, senator john mccain wrote this week vladmir putin made a friend to the tyrants if a column published on what non-american news site? evan. >> pravada. >> correct. 38 seconds left. josh 500, evan 500. 300 pountd question, a swelling bow won this week by senator tim kaine who correctly spelled the word non-perel. spell it crystal. >> nonparaeil. >> correc

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