Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class full of success stories, one stands out particularly but not surprisingly. Edward M. Kennedy left Harvard for good in 1956 and at the age of 30 in 1962, filled his brother John's seat in the Senate. He has remained there since. His classmates are acutely aware of his membership in their ranks. In their Class Report statements some urge him to bring even greater renown to the class, while other write things like "President Carter has been a disaster for this country and I don't think our classmate's performance would be much better...
...proposed federal budget (a vote that was rescinded the next day). Five Democratic Congressmen publicly announced they would not support Carter's renomination and charged that he had "abandoned the promises and hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating Carter by a shocking 70% to 20% in a head-on confrontation in California...
...began his commencement address last week at Boston University, Senator Edward Kennedy announced that he was going to refrain from needling any presidents, either Jimmy Carter, whom he has criticized frequently, or the controversial John Silber, head of the university. "It is hard enough being a president these days. At least that is what I am told," bellowed the senior Senator from Massachusetts. "I, of course, don't have any firsthand experience at it." He paused a few seconds as the silent audience waited. Then he added what they all suspected he would: "Yet!" The crowd erupted with...
Joining Ottinger were Edward P. Beard of Rhode Island, Fortney H. Stark of California, John Conyers of Michigan, the only member of the quintet not to back Kennedy, and Richard Nolan, a onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...
...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...