RFK's Nanny Diaries

Amidst the Kennedy family revival, the Los Angeles Times flags an overlooked member of Camelot’s court. Ena Bernard worked for four decades as a nanny to Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy’s 11 children. "I just had a lot of love in my heart for children," said Bernard, now 100. "After our father died, my mother had to play both roles," Chris Kennedy said. "Ena backfilled and was always loving and supportive." When she was cross, she would threaten the children with a “pow-pow”—a smack on the hand—but she never saw it through. On her 100th birthday, the family gave her an award saying, "For Ena, who captured the hearts of the whole family and whose 50 years of giving Pow-Pow has made us all better."