... . With financial success came political involvement. In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and a famous, if controversial, national figure, ... JFK's, the execution was mainly the work of Theodore Sorensen, one of his aides. "The concept of the book was Kennedy's," Sorensen would say later. "The responsibility for ...

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