Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office; Smathers recommended her because of her adoration of the Kennedys. Mary Jo soon became respected for thoroughness, industriousness and discretion. "She was the one who stayed up all night and typed Bobby's speech on Viet Nam" in February 1966, Ethel Kennedy recalled last week. During the 1968 campaign, Mary Jo worked in the "Boiler Room" of R.F.K.'s Washington campaign headquarters, where the running count of convention delegates was kept. Mary Jo joined three other young women in renting a small Georgetown house on Olive Street. Though bright, blonde and at least conventionally pretty, she had little social...
After Robert Kennedy's death, Mary Jo, like other former staffers, worked for a time helping Ethel with correspondence. Then she joined the Southern Political Education and Action Committee, registering Negro voters in Florida. When she was hired last September by Matt Reese Associates, which runs campaigns for Democrats across the country, she was proud to have graduated to the status of political organizer and all-round campaign aide...
...author is Kevin P. Phillips, 28, a graduate of Harvard Law School ('64) who was a voting-trend analyst for Nixon Campaign Manager John Mitchell. Since the election, he has followed Mitchell to the Justice Department and is now an assistant to the Attorney General...
Cleavages. To an extent, the strategy that is set forward in Phillips' book is an aggrandized version of the 1968 Republican presidential-campaign strategy-though Nixon, in his pre-election speech on new alignments, specifically sought to appeal to both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...
...months since Eugene McCarthy's campaign for the presidency, Washington has been alive with rumors about the Minnesota Senator's political and personal plans. The two, it was said, were entangled. Last week McCarthy, 53, made explicit an earlier ambiguous announcement by declaring he would not seek re-election to the Senate next year on any ticket in Minnesota. Columnist Drew Pearson primed Washington's gossip-go-round by reporting that McCarthy "has decided to make a complete break with the past and leave not only the Senate but his wife Abigail...