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Bobby has the most to lose in Indiana, and the high-powered Kennedy campaign apparatus was tuned last week to near-perfect pitch. Facing McCarthy and the state's favorite son, Governor Roger Branigin, Kennedy has invested prodigious sums of money in planning and publicity. He has also drawn upon that other great family resource: Kennedys. Pitching into his campaign, which included a whistle-stopping run across the state last week aboard his special "Wabash Cannonball Express," were Wife Ethel, Brother Teddy, Sons David and Michael, Daughter Courtney, Sisters Pat Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver, Sister...
...more than state solvency that caused the Indianapolis Star to call him "all Hoosier from his head to his toes." His family has been in the state since 1821. He is a walking repository of Hoosier lore, with which he delights audiences. As Branigin expounds early Indiana history, Lieut. Colonel George Rogers Clark comes out a combination of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett; Clark's conquests of Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Cahokia sound only slightly less momentous than Saratoga, Trenton and Yorktown...
...glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish for her meat." Branigin pauses after that recitation, as if savoring the image, then observes: "This did not sell well...
...full of nuggets of what he calls Hoosier philosophy, e.g.: "Whenever you hear a man say it's not the money, it's the principle, you can bet it's the money." Branigin himself got into the primary contest as a matter of principle. Lyndon Johnson asked him to run as a presidential standin, and although the Governor was never a Johnson fan, he believed that party loyalty demanded his acceptance. "Here I agree to do it," he says, "and just a few days later [when Johnson pulled out of the race] find myself dropped through...
Careening through 18-hour campaign days toward the May 7 Indiana primary against Eugene McCarthy and favorite son Governor Roger Branigin, Kennedy has been profligate with his strength and sometimes sloppy in his tactics. Last week he admitted that 20 Senate employees working for himself and Brother Teddy on the U.S. payroll are engaged in campaign activities. Too often he allows his staffers to reinforce the image of ruthlessness, as when one Kennedy operative phoned a middle-level Washington official and demanded campaign assistance. "I'll be happy to do everything I can after the convention," said the official...