Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy and old Joe Kennedy, who last week turned 78-yet he somehow seems much closer in outlook to the older...
...surface, the Bobby boom seems incomprehensible. Robert Kennedy, the ruthless kid brother, the vindictive Senate investigator of the 1950s who made no secret of his admiration for his onetime boss, the late Joe McCarthy, the heavy-handed hatchet man of 1960 who ran Jack Kennedy's campaign the way Captain Ahab ran the Pequod, the glowering, omnipresent Attorney General who always seemed to be under fire-Robert Kennedy upstaging the greatest vote getter of them...
Bobby is aware of such reservations and occasionally tries to dissolve them with humor. When Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joe Clark routinely congratulated him on a recent speech, Bobby sent him a note of thanks. Next time Clark saw Bobby in the Senate, he slipped him a note asking, "Why do you have to be so polite?" "Because," wrote Bobby in reply, "I'm trying to conceal the ruthless side of my nature...
Bobby's own office is an almost shrinelike oasis of calm. On one wall hangs William Walton's impressionistic portrait of J.F.K., State of the Union. On another is an oil portrait entitled Before His Last Mission, showing Joe Jr., eldest of the Kennedy children, in flying togs just before his death in 1944, when an explosives-laden plane in which he was flying blew up over the English Channel. Opposite Bobby's desk, in stark contrast to the collection of his children's watercolors, are memorabilia of J.F.K.-whom he almost always calls "the President...
...Bobby often calls on Columbia's Dean David Truman or ex-White House Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, spends hours discussing issues with them by way of clarifying his own thoughts. Constantly on the lookout for new academic and legal talent is Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, who directs old Joe Kennedy's interests in New York...