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...election in 18 years, still has remained consistently in the forefront of U.S. public affairs. To be sure, he had a good deal going for him in New Hampshire, a state where 52% of the population lives within 50 miles of Boston and regards Brahmin Lodge as virtually one of their...
...particularly shaken by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a project he backed wholeheartedly-but some acquaintances still complain of his intellectual arrogance, and one official refers to him as "the coldest fish around." At the Pentagon, Bill is occasionally accused of a lack of imagination and a Brahmin disdain for his colleagues, but that is a minority view...
...most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive for its despised minorities [the new Irish], Joseph P. Kennedy had set out to beat his persecutors at their own game." Lasky even makes it sound sinister when President Kennedy "dropped the nation's business" to fly to his father's bedside after he suffered...
Driving through Boston one day in 1952, Julius Boros, 32, the newly crowned U.S. Open champion, decided to run out and play a few holes of golf at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., prize pasture of Brahmin duffers. "Sorry," he was told. "For members only." Last week, at 43, Boros finally got to play the course. After 90 holes of golf he struggled through crowds of backslappers on The Country Club's 18th green to pick up his $17,500 check as the U.S. Open champion of 1963. "They say," he smiled, "that life begins...
...says, "that it's foolish, even as rumor." Voters might agree. Bobby lacks his brother's easy grace; he is earthier, bristling in his loyalties (the U.S., Jack, and his church; other Kennedys; other Democrats), implacable in his enmities. Jack has been called the first Irish Brahmin; Bobby is the Irish Puritan, not an ascetic but a man of burning zeal. If he does not want to become President, it is safe to say that he wants his brother to become a great President, assisted by a great Attorney General. Meanwhile, as President John Kennedy...