Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy campaign tactics forthcoming this week, Boston University Political Scientist Murray Levin notes that "the Kennedy brothers and the men who help manage their careers and campaigns have mastered the art of creating shadows and taking advantage of substance...
...Bobby can help it. Ironically, he once thought of the Senate as one of the worst possible paths for Jack's presidential bid, because he had to face one issue after another and was bound to lose some favor with every vote. Bobby believed that Jack could more effectively advance his career as Governor of Massachusetts, but J.F.K. scorned the job. "Who wants to sit in a corner office of the statehouse," he asked, "and hand out sewer contracts...
Beyond his staff, Kennedy often relies on a wholly informal brain trust-hardly a cabal, but a loose network of friendships acquired during his 15 years in politics. Foreign affairs? He may get help from Richard Goodwin, who wrote both J.F.K.'s "Alliance for Progress" and Johnson's "Great Society" speeches, or from Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who is also known as the best gagwriter of the lot. Military strategy? Roswell Gilpatric, ex-Deputy Secretary of Defense, may offer suggestions. Civil rights? Burke Marshall, Bobby's civil rights chief at Justice and now IBM's general...
...supersonic MIG-19 fighters and 11-28 bombers, from Red China. In addition, Pakistan has recently acquired 90 Canadian-built F-86 Sabres from Iran. Indian officials insist that Pakistan has concluded a secret military pact with Red China. "We are pretty sure that they have an understanding to help each other up to point X," says one external-affairs aide, "but we don't know what point...
...august group of seven men, headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, to "satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." The Warren Commission had an unlimited budget and access to all the investigative talents and tools of the Federal Government. With the help of a full-time staff of 26-mostly legal experts-it published a lucid, tightly written 888-page report that was a compendium of 26 volumes (17,815 pages) of testimony and evidential exhibits gathered over ten months...