Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself who observed, "He hates just like I do." By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is the spoiled dynast, reclaiming the White House as a legacy from the man he regards as a usurper. Yet to many who have worked closely with him, Bobby is like Jack, pragmatic and perceptive, tempered by history. Says Urbanologist Pat Moynihan: "Much has been given him and taken from him in life, and somehow he has been enlarged by both experiences...
...During Jack's administration, there was much half-joking about "Bobby's turn." After the assassination, it became a question of opportunity. Pierre Salinger took a leave of absence from his job as an airlines vice president last Jan. 1. Asked if he knew then that Bobby would run, Salinger replied: "I knew on Jan. 1, 1964." After Johnson ruled him out as his 1964 running mate, Kennedy was asked what he would do if something happened to the President before the next election. "I'd go after the nomination," he said...
...avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...
...months. Humphrey, despite his official perquisites, cannot match it. And no candidate of either party can boast aides who themselves have celebrity status. The impression that the Kennedy combine is principally retreads from the 1960 quest is illusory. A number of leading members are primarily Bobby's rather than Jack's. Adam Walinsky, 31, a former Justice Department aide, is the chief traveling speechwriter; Jeff Greenfield, 24, out of Yale Law, works with Walinsky; Peter Edelman, 30, another Justice Department veteran, concentrates on research; Frank Mankiewicz, 43, a former Peace Corps official, is chief press aide. Others, like Arthur Schlesinger...
...colleague puts it. O'Brien has been assigned to the primary states, O'Donnell to delegate work in the non-primary states. Goodwin is somewhat out of favor; he worked for both Johnson and McCarthy. Greenfield keeps on permanent display a college newspaper editorial he wrote criticizing Jack Kennedy's Viet Nam policies...