Contributions to and influence over her famed family dynasty. This program is about an hour. Host Barbara Perry its good to be here with you talking about the kennedys. But that is having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have the particular resonance for us but i wanted to start right off in ask you, youre a Supreme Court president ial scholar. How did you get interested in rose . Guest ive been interested in the Kennedy Family since i was a little tyke read when i was four years old my mother to me and my brothers to downtown louisville. She piled the center 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. She was completely drawn to this new candidate on the scene in the president ial race senator john f. Kennedy. Host do you think because he was catholic a little bit . Guest i have to think i that was a major part of it in addition to which he was about her age so she was the new generation to which the torch was being passed that i point out what she loved history and po