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...MISSOURI, Stuart Symington, ex-Secretary of the Air Force, is ahead of isolationist Senator James...
...Taylor, director of Independents for Kennedy, saying "after what he did to Senator Taft, we feel he has forfeited all rights to expect right-thinking people to support him this fall in returning to office." But the attack on Lodge's Eisenhower support is a rationalization of deeper feelings: Isolationist Republicans, like Minority Leader Joseph Martin, have always been hostile toward Lodge because of his support of Truman's foreign policy and his continual bolting of the party on other issues. The elder Kennedy, to the contrary, has always been a rabid isolationist, and presumably the Taftites feel, or know...
...said about this or that bill on which, in the end, both voted the same way anyway. Thus Kennedy has supported most Democratic foreign policy measures and Lodge has, too. Foreign policy is not an issue, particularly since Kennedy has not shown his true colors: will he repudiate the isolationist opinion of his father? Domestically Kennedy's record is the stronger, but again the two are not far apart. Thus when the President's Commission investigating the McCarran Immigration Bill held hearings in Boston recently both Kennedy and Lodge attacked the bill for 15 minutes. In a public debate...
...that "Lodge is vital, for only he can dampen the wild cries of the neo-isolationist Republicans and assume the role that Vandenberg so ably carried out." But this is not the case. Lodge does not command the respect of his Middle Western Republican colleagues as Vandenberg did. As Time Magazine wrote on December 17, 1951, under the heading, "The Lost Mantle," "When Vandenberg fell ill and retired from active leadership, most observers thought the mantle of Republican leadership in Foreign Policy would fall on Cabot Lodge. But somehow, the mantle never fitted. In 1949, Lodge led 14 liberal Republicans...
Kennedy has been endorsed by a number of groups and individuals who could not conscientiously endorse a "mediocrity"--or a neo-isolationist. After hearing both Kennedy and Lodge, the ADA recently decided to support Kennedy and work for his election. The C.I.O. and A.F. of L. have likewise given him their support (in a 1952 compilation of voting records, the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. stated that Lodge had voted 48% liberal, Kennedy 95%). Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Senator Herbert Lehman have come out for Kennedy. And Governor Stevenson, who has said that he will not endorse Democrats whose...