Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In advance of that announcement, Ted Kennedy is already putting the screws to Democratic Senators and Congressmen, competing with Carter for their endorsements. The pressure from both rivals is heavy and direct, and some Democratic politicians try to please both. As Kennedy left the Senate floor one day, a well...
Not in this century has a challenger overthrown an incumbent President of his own party. But Ted Kennedy thinks he is the natural force?indeed the only possible Democratic force?to fill that vacuum.
Every poll shows him with nearly a 2-to-l lead over Carter among Democrats and independents. Carter has disappointed almost every constituency that put him in office. And those constituencies, especially the blacks, Hispanics and working-class white ethnics who form the spine of the Democratic Party, seem ready...
In Florida, TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks was interviewing State Comptroller Gerald Lewis about Kennedy. Reports Stacks: "Soon it was clear that he was not just talking about Ted Kennedy but about John Kennedy and Bob Kennedy and Camelot and the antiwar movement and God knows what other half...
That process of judgment has already begun, and among the things it will strip away are uncertainties about exactly what Kennedy's policies are. In this area, his opponents see great opportunities. Says Democratic National Chairman John