Word: friends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next morning, Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at the inn. They returned to Chappaquiddick at about 9 a.m. and entered a shack near the ferry slip, where Kennedy tried in vain to phone a family friend, Attorney Burke Marshall. At that point, Ferryman Richard Hewitt asked if they knew about the wrecked car, which had been discovered by some fishermen. Hewitt later testified that Markham replied, "Yes. We just heard about it." Only then did Kennedy go to the police station and report the accident...
...believes that there is no way a candidate can be made entirely safe. Says an old associate, former L.BJ. Aide George Christian: "Connally just doesn't worry about it. He's come to terms with it." Kennedy's attitude is similar. Last summer a friend tried to talk him out of running. Said the friend: "Somebody's out there waiting for you." Replied Kennedy, with a shrug: "They could be waiting for me even if I weren't running for President...
...friend, Williams Historian James MacGregor Burns, has urged Kennedy to do most of his campaigning from TV and radio stations, newspaper editorial offices and well-policed arenas. Wrote Burns in the New York Times...
...opponents, the Polisario guerrillas, might solicit more help from the Soviet Union, posing the threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan would be a major embarrassment to the President's re-election campaign...
...friend of Israel. To say that I have equated the price of oil to the liberty of Israel is rank distortion." The U.S., he said, is forever committed "by moral imperative" to protect Israel. But he refused to retract his plea for a new realism, adding: "I'm only saying America has broader interests in the Middle East...