Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penetrate Kennedy's private reserve, Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian met with him in two settings where the Senator is most at ease: his small hideaway office in the Capitol, once occupied by Brother. Jack, and the library at his McLean, Va., home. Ajemian also drew upon insights into Kennedy developed over 16 years of covering him, first for LIFE and later for TIME...
...last of the Kennedy brothers, the youngest, the most vulnerable, the most thoroughly political, is finally running for President. For more than a decade, he has distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at one point, "but not at this time." Now, disdainful of Carter's leadership, he has decided that the time is right. After a considerable amount of coy public indecision, he is expected to announce this week that he has formed a campaign committee, headed by Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith...
There is only one person who comes close to being what Kennedy's brothers were to him. That is his brother-in-law Stephen Smith...
They have done so partly because of a nostalgia for his brother's Administration, for Camelot. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Kennedy's popularity is an accumulated, generational perception. He is part of the American culture." No matter that John Kennedy blundered into the Bay of Pigs and first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...
...convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That definition, too, can be read in more than one way. Says an old Kennedy friend, conservative Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "Ted is the son of Joe Kennedy and the brother of Jack and Bobby. Like them, he accommodates himself to the prevailing views...