Sublime

As one Kennedy family biographer said: “[Joe] stressed to his children the importance of winning at any cost and the pleasures of coming in first. As his own heroes were not poets or artists but men of action, he took it for granted that his children too wanted public success…. All too often, his understanding about their desires… were fruits of hi

He was caught in a “storm of jealousy about the ‘Kennedy class,’ ” a storm so violent that at times it “threatened to drown him,” Joseph Califano says. And his feelings centered, with a growing concentration that seemed to leave none for other targets, on the slight figure of Bobby Kennedy.

Ike was also not the best golfer to occupy the White House. That distinction goes to John F. Kennedy, who was obsessively secretive about his love for the game.