Oh No: That Other Time A Super-Rich President Appointed Family Advisers To Top Roles In The White House

Donald Trump is not the first president to get a head start from dad, be worth a billion dollars, or even bring members of his nuclear family into the White House as close advisers. Indeed, another president did all of those things — and not a Founding Father or some forgotten 19th-century bureaucrat, but a television man.

Unsurprisingly, the average consumer of news would not know any of this, because according to Democrats and a lot of talkers in the media, Trump — the rich guy with a rich dad and close familial advisers — is something American politics has never ever seen before. “Unprecedented” is one of the words they like most. Search Google News for “Trump unprecedented,” and you’ll find 1,530,000 results in under a second. This is hardly scientific, but the trend is clear.

And these results are not surprising at all. A knowledge of history is simply not part of the job-description for reporters and commentators. Some can’t even remember the headline they wrote a week before.

But the man who went before is one John F. Kennedy, so darling to our media his family rule was nicknamed “Camelot.”

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