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Senator Edward Kennedy chose the setting with an eye for drama, and history: the Senate Caucus Room, where his brothers John and Robert formally launched their runs for the presidency. Teddy's purpose was not to announce his own candidacy???yet? but to seize the initiative on an issue that seems sure to bulk large in the 1980 campaign: the skyrocketing cost of medical care. Before TV cameras last Monday he outlined the latest version of his national health insurance plan, designed to enable every American to have medical insurance regardless of age or state of health. Two days later...
...comptroller has had to spend a good deal of time explaining why he preferred not to debate on television; last week he finally accepted the challenge. He has had to deny repeatedly that he is racist. He has had to defend his emotionalism?he wept when announcing his candidacy???and replies that Moses, Jesus, Lou Gehrig and Joe Namath all were emotional. His statements suffer from a poverty of ideas and often boil down to a vague assertion that Lindsay's good intentions have disturbed the peace and that what is really needed is a reversion to the status...
...fact that he won 51% of the vote, against 31% for Senator Eugene McCarthy, was only part of his triumph. The combined loyalist vote in conservative, rural Nebraska?8% write-ins for Vice President Hubert Humphrey and 6% for Johnson, who remained on the ballot despite his non-candidacy???showed the extent of disaffection with the Administration, which Bobby did his share to provoke. And Kennedy's support was so broad in a state with only a 2% Negro population that it crushed the argument that his appeal is restricted to city dwellers, the black and the poor...
...support" and "a Republican prospect that is in every respect worse." Concluded Galbraith: "If the Democrats seem to be lacking in credibility, the Republicans produce a man you can really mistrust?Richard Nixon." At week's end the A.D.A. national board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse McCarthy's candidacy???with an amendment, introduced by Chairman Galbraith, recognizing that individual members are free to support other candidates. Whether this halfhearted compromise will prevent an irreparable split is questionable. One obvious apostate was former Chairman John Roche, President Johnson's house intellectual, who immediately said he would resign from the organization...
Certain Choice. Regardless of the temper of the people as indicated by last year's or last week's election, the renomination of Herbert Hoover is almost as good as accomplished. Against him is only one formal and forlorn candidacy???Dr. Joseph Irwin France of Maryland (TIME, April 30). Dwight Whitney Morrow, on whom Wets pinned dreamy hopes, is dead. A vague stirring of Liberals for William Edgar Borah, with talk of cash support, received no encouragement from the Idaho Senator. The rank & file of the Republican Party may not be enthusiastic about their national leader but they have little...