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...booth. While Kerry was preoccupied with the war, all sorts of problems, great and small, were festering within the campaign. Some arguments had been festering, unresolved, for months. The biggest problem was Jordan, who had a positive genius for alienating Kerry's closest associates, including wife Teresa and brother Cam. Managing the various layers of consultants, personal friends, political cronies and Vietnam buddies that formed the Kerry safari was never going to be easy, but Jordan ignored Kerry's old Boston pals and dismissed their concerns about the Dean campaign. "There isn't a single f______ vote...
...adviser's ties to Kerry go so far back or so deep as those of two men who are related to him by blood or marriage--his younger brother Cameron and his former brother-in-law David Thorne. Cam was the first Kerry to make an impression on many of Boston's politicos; they remember him as a sophomore at Harvard in 1970, making the rounds of pacifist political circles in an effort to win their backing for the abortive effort of his war-hero-turned-war-protester brother to put together a campaign for Congress that year. (The peace...
...Kerry retired from the foreign service in 1962, frustrated by the inertia he encountered there and resentful at not being listened to and appreciated to the degree he thought he deserved. "He obviously enjoyed the work at some level, being involved in policy and the travel and so on," Cam says of his father. "But I think ultimately he was frustrated by the bureaucracy and by the policies." He had parted ways with President Eisenhower and his men, who he thought saw things in black and white--the godless communists against everyone else. Richard rejected the notion that the rest...
...handful of English-speaking boys. "At first I was homesick as hell," Kerry says. Raised a Catholic, Kerry says he found comfort and company in church, becoming quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back from vacation and spouting 'Spaccare la faccia, porco!'" Cam says with a laugh. The phrase roughly translates as "Shove it in your face, pig" and was "probably one of the milder...
...EXECUTED. TRUONG VAN CAM, a.k.a. Nam Cam, 57, Vietnam's most notorious criminal godfather; by firing squad; in Ho Chi Minh City. Cam was convicted last June on charges including murder and bribery. His three-month trial exposed connections between his extensive gambling and prostitution rackets and senior Communist Party officials...