Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unannounced but unabashed run for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 1960, Jack Kennedy has left panting politicians and swooning women across a large spread of the U.S. Taking off from the 1956 Democratic Convention, where he lost the nomination for Vice President to Tennessee's Estes Kefauver by a cliff hanging 38½ votes, Kennedy campaigned for the national ticket in 24 states-more than any Democrat except Adlai Stevenson and Kefauver. This year he has had more than 2,500 speaking invitations (they stream into his office, the mailboxes of his family, and even...
...Jack Kennedy has gone on some of the most highly visible assets in U.S. politics. At 40, he is trim (6 ft., 160 lbs.) and boyishly handsome, with a trademark in the shock of unruly brown hair (now showing a few grey strands) that Wildroot only seems to make wilder. He belongs to a legendary family that surpasses its legend: the Kennedys of Massachusetts. He is an authentic war hero and a Pulitzer-prizewinning author (for his bestselling Profiles in Courage). He is an athlete (during World War II his swimming skill saved his life and those...
Down to Taws. Such virtues have made Jack Kennedy the Democratic whiz of 1957, but by no means guarantee that he will still be the whiz of 1960. When the convention delegates really get down to taws, they will pay much attention to Kennedy's political liabilities. He is a Roman Catholic in a party that has never forgotten the debacle of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 (to prove himself a winner outside heavily Catholic Massachusetts, Kennedy has little choice but to enter perilous presidential primaries in 1960). His youth, now so appealing, may be turned against him when...
Moreover. Jack Kennedy is a member of the U.S. Senate-and there is good reason for the fact that in all U.S. history only one man, Warren G. Harding, has gone directly from the Senate to the White House. Explains Kennedy: "The Senate is just not the place to run from. No matter how you vote, somebody is made happy and somebody unhappy. If you vote against enough people, you are dead politically. If you vote for everybody-in favor of every appropriation but against every tax to pay for it-you might as well be dead politically, because...
...ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides Ike; Estes Kefauver, still, according to the Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams, and even Oregon's odd Senator Wayne Morse, all liberal darlings...