Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning a heavy southeaster drove a press conference into the living room of old Joe Kennedy's home, where newsmen were surrounded by assorted Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower...
...Vice Presidency. We wouldn't need one. If anything happened to Jack, Brother Bobby would fill in, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him. Ah-but what if Teddy went too? Well then, we could fall back on that granddaddy of all shrewd operators, Joe...
...Joe Alsop is not a Jeremiah. He is just an intensely ingrown Democratic partisan...
Even Arizona's nomination of her favorite conservative son, Senator Barry Goldwater, was meant more as a "symbol of an open convention"--like the playful nomination of Joe Smith in 1956--than as a serious attempt to stall the inevitable Nixon victory...
...Kennedy enclave at Hyannisport, Mass.-usually swarming with dogs, children, bicycles and softball teams-was strangely silent last week. The bright green lawns stretching from Jack's and Brother Bob's homes to Father Joe's oceanfront manse were deserted...