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Campaign Issue. Even as his back pains troubled him early in the '50s, Kennedy was suffering from another disease that later became a campaign issue. Last July, aides of Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy's chief rival for the nomination, charged that Senator Kennedy was a victim of Addison's disease. As described by Dr. Thomas Addison in 1849, that disease is a rare, acute adrenal tuberculosis (signs: extreme lethargy, deep skin pigmentation) that generally ends in death. Doctors nowadays often apply the name to nontubercular, nonfatal adrenal insufficiency. That, Kennedy's doctors say, is what...
...Pietro Belluschi, dean of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture and Planning; Thomas Church, San Francisco landscape artist; Bartlett Hayes Jr., director of the Addison Gallery at Andover; Joseph Hudnut, professor emeritus of architecture at Harvard; and Paul Rudolph, architecture department chairman at Yale...
...estate.) In appointing Connally for Johnson's sake, the Kennedys had much to forgive: as Johnson's presidential campaign manager, Connally distinguished himself at the Los Angeles convention by calling a desperation press conference to suggest that Rival Candidate Kennedy was suffering from a serious case of Addison's disease. Smooth politico Connally has Navy credentials: as a naval officer during World War II, he served as a fighter plane director aboard the carriers Essex and Bennington, won the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit...
Looking back, most of his associates date his emergence as a bona fide liberal-and probably as a presidential aspirant-to the years 1955-56. His serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort...
...Rutland is about half the size of Stafford's, and nearly five times as crowded. Local candidates, city officials, party workers, college students--all sit around and talk for a few hours. When discussion isn't strictly political--"who will win this city?" "Get a group of workers to Addison County,"--it generally focuses on Meyer's political ideas. No one totally agrees with all of the Congressman's policies, but most people working at Rutland headquarters have attempted to think out their own views; and all agree that Meyer makes a good deal of sense. No one has much...