OTL John Adams. And it's cute but a bit silly to disregard JFK and especially Nixon.
Oh stop. It's all a bunch of heresay and slander repackaged every decade, which started in 1960 with the slander the Republicans used against Kennedy when he was running, repeated ad infinitum with no source knowing the origin and just quoting a guy's book which quoted another guy's book which quoted another guy's book which quoted another guy's book on and on back to one guy who made a slanderous statement, who didn't even actually say what he was interpreted as saying, but the story gets built up and changed through a game of Chinese whispers until it becomes a consensus which doesn't understand its own foundations. The Kennedy mafia story evolved from 1960 when a Republican paper published that Joe Kennedy made a deal to import liquor during prohibition, with the assertion that he was a bootlegger. That's where the story of the mafia started since if he was a bootlegger and as wealthy a man he was, he'd be involved with organized crime. That's the way the story was subsequently spun, and it was also spun that that's how he made his fortune. The problem being it's all bull. Joe Kennedy did make that deal, but he did it when the repeal of Prohibition was passed and the deal was for the liquor to come in after Prohibition's end went into effect. So he wasn't a bootlegger, nor a rum runner, and he wasn't in bed with the mob, and the mob didn't get his son elected. 50 years of bull dates back to one story by a slandering pro-Nixon journalist whose story got picked up and spun a thousand times over into this giant thing.
Nixon, what evidence is there that Nixon was ever in bed with the mafia?
It looks sexy, and gossip and dirty details are always the most important things to people; as human's, we're programmed for it. But fact outweighs good story, and the fact is there is no fact.