Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people to continue to celebrate and expect political courage." In politics, Caroline picks her moments. She turned down an invitation to serve as chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention in 1992, but she stumped for Teddy and her cousin Patrick, a Rhode Island Congressman, late in the 1994 campaign. In 1998 she lent her name to the campaign against an anti-affirmative-action initiative in Washington State and gave a speech at a U.N. ceremony in which she implored the U.S. Senate to ratify an international treaty on children's rights...
...added to it the special stoicism that comes from being the tribe's eldest. Her family nicknames include "Clean Kathleen," "the Nun" and "the Un-Kennedy." Says longtime friend Tim Hagen, a former local politician in Ohio whom she met while working for her uncle Ted's 1980 presidential campaign: "At times Kathleen is so resolute she does not accept the irreconcilable." Indeed, her staff says one of her favorite words is "unacceptable...
...cousin Patrick was not with the rest of the family for the celebration of his cousin Rory's wedding. The third-term Congressman from Rhode Island was performing just about the only other Kennedy ritual that would exempt him from attendance--politicking. As chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, Kennedy was in San Francisco doing what he does almost every weekend--scooping up campaign cash to help Democrats win back the House of Representatives...
...introduces himself and people ask, "Where's the Kennedy?" But the third youngest member of Congress is starting to become known for more than his shortcomings. He has surprised many by his ascent into the House Democratic leadership, leaping over more senior colleagues to the pivotal position of campaign chairman and helping raise a record $17 million in just the first six months...
Painting Bill Clinton as the emotional equivalent of a troubled four-year old won?t do much for the Leader of the Free World, but it may help the First Lady?s Senate campaign. In a far-reaching interview with Tina Brown?s new magazine, Talk, Mrs. Clinton says the roots of her husband?s infidelities lay in his loyalties being divided at age four by a conflict between his mother and grandmother. Although some of the media speculated that the White House had been blindsided by the interview, TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister believes that?s highly unlikely. "This...