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Tries The Gridiron...
Kennedy outscore Richard Nixon in the Great Debates through the force of his arguments or because he projected a "blurry, shaggy texture?" Does foot ball draw better than baseball on TV because everything happens with simultaneous near-confusion on the gridiron as opposed to the slow sequential order of events on the diamond...
...does Percy. So does Rockefeller, who last year renounced presidential ambitions "forever." But as one G.O.P. leader observed recently, "Nobody ever made a Sherman-like statement except Sherman," and all three men would almost certainly accept the nomination. As Washington newsmen put it during last month's Gridiron Club dinner, in a song that was written with Rocky in mind but applies to all the naysayers...
Kennedy treated his differences with the President in a lighter vein at the dinner given by the Gridiron Club. It is supposedly off the record, but its better lines quickly circulate through Washington. The Senator said he could not understand all the reports about disagreements between him and Johnson that date back to John Kennedy's Administration. Why, protested Bobby, he and Lyndon had been very friendly during the first part of the Administration. But then, as they left the inaugural stand...
...recognize an exit cue. When his tax proposals were made public, Reagan managed a strategic retreat to the East, where he met with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, breakfasted in Washington with Republican members of the House, and swapped quips with Bobby Kennedy at the Gridiron Club's annual hijinks...