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...this week's cover are Presidential Aspirant Jack Kennedy and his wife Jackie in front, flanked by his parents. Joseph and Rose, with the portrait gallery in the background showing Brother Robert-over his father's right shoulder-followed, in clockwise order, by Grandfather John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald. Sisters Patricia Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver. Brother Edward and Sister Rosemary...
...Whose grandfather, Henry Cabot Lodge, defeated Honey Fitz by a scant 30,000 votes in a 1916 Senate race...
...that Jack should make his political debut in the congressional race for Boston's Eleventh District-a Democratic citadel that includes Cambridge and Harvard, but is largely made up of slums and the middle-class Irish and Italian wards of East Boston. It was home ground for Honey Fitz, and the area where Joe Kennedy was born, but Jack was a complete stranger. He rented a carpetbagger's quarters in the Hotel Bellevue in order to qualify as a "resident," and plunged into the primary campaign against eight opponents. At first he was shy and ill at ease...
...Boston. The clan came by its political instincts easily. The Kennedys and Mother Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...
...Honey Fitz, brimming with pride, provided his grandson with a phalanx of seasoned ward heelers, but Jack preferred the rank-amateur assistance of his college friends, wartime shipmates and Ivy Leaguers who flocked to help out in the campaign. The old pols were disgusted, until Jack and his youthful supporters won handsomely, with 42% of the vote. On the night of the primary victory, old Honey Fitz, 83, crawled up on a table, danced a stiff-legged Irish jig and sang Sweet Adeline. It was the swan song for the old, colorful and rascally breed of Boston Irish politics...