Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goal of landing men on the moon by 1970; Richard Nixon, the man Kennedy defeated, presided over the attainment of that goal in 1969. By mischance, Senator Edward Kennedy, the heir to an important part of U.S. liberal leadership, found his political future seriously in doubt...
...Shakespeare's Prince Hal, he was not what he had seemed to be, and friends and critics alike saw not an immature Senator from Massachusetts but the legend's last guardian. That summer he avoided a chance for the presidential nomination. It would have been premature. But who could doubt that, if spared the fate of his brothers, he would make his claim on the legacy in the future? In his first speech after the murder in Los Angeles of Brother Robert, Edward Moore Kennedy proclaimed: "Like my three brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained...
...back brace from his 1964 airplane crash, Kennedy must have found it difficult to dive into the water, and the question is how strenuously he really tried. The tidal current was running at 1½ knots. Considering the physical circumstances, and Kennedy's description of his condition, there is some doubt as to how much credibility this part of his story carries. When the car was brought to the surface the next morning, a purse belonging to Rosemary Keough, Edward Kennedy's secretary, was found. This led to all kinds of speculation that Miss Keough might have been...
...mind, said Kennedy, including the notion that perhaps the event had not happened at all, or, on the other hand, perhaps "some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." He added: "I was overcome, I am frank to say, by a jumble of emotions ?grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock...
...possible that Kennedy, like Abe Fortas, had such pride of place that he thought he could ignore the buzz and emerge unscathed? Some did not doubt it for a minute. Others at least wondered if there was not, in fact, a peculiar Kennedy hubris...