Ethel on bobby kennedy affairs

Ethel Kennedy, who died Thursday at the age of 96, lived a life of tragedy, made painful by her knowledge of her husband’s many affairs.

But she tolerated Bobby’s deception because she knew from the start that there was “no tradition of monogamy in the Kennedy clan.”

Bobby’s widow understood the Kennedys better than anyone who wasn’t born into the family and was fully aware of what she was getting into.

She knew that infidelity was the price she had to pay for her marriage to a Kennedy man and that she had to keep quiet because of an unspoken contract.

Ethel even turned a blind eye to rumors that her husband was sleeping with his sister-in-law Jackie Kennedy.