Joe Kennedy, Sr. - a corrupt bootlegger in cahoots with gangsters, a Nazi sympathizer, and a notorious womanizer. The only "service" the Kennedy clan ever engaged in was in service to themselves. Their disgraceful behavior caught up with them all, and the Kennedy family has dissolved into disrepute because of it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence