Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warming Up. After Joe Jr.'s death, Jack Kennedy stepped instinctively into his brother's shoes. "Just as I went into politics because Joe died," he explained later, "if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him." In the family war councils it was decided that Jack should make his political debut in the congressional race for Boston's Eleventh District-a Democratic citadel that includes Cambridge and Harvard, but is largely made up of slums and the middle...
...play for higher stakes. At the clan councils he toyed with the idea of running for the governorship, but eventually decided to make an audacious try for the Senate seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.-"When you've beaten him, you've beaten the best," advised Joe Kennedy. "Why try for something less...
...Senate campaign Jack called out the clan. Bobby was a meticulous campaign manager, crisscrossing Massachusetts like an anxious welterweight, head down, looking up through bushy eyebrows with a baleful stare. State Senator John Powers asked Joe Kennedy for his wife's services as a campaigner. "But she's a grandmother," he protested. "Yes, but she's beautiful, and she's the mother of a Congressman, and we need her," was the reply. Rose went to work, with Eunice, Pat and Jean, at the famous Boston tea parties, and the Clan Kennedy smashed Cabot Lodge and turned...
...decision to run for the presidency in 1960 was made a short month after he lost the vice-presidential nomination to Estes Kefauver at the 1956 convention. Jack counted on his father for tactical opinions and financial support. But on the major decisions he was his own man. Old Joe's advice to stay out of the vice-presidential race at the 1956 convention went unheeded, and it went unheeded again early this year when, because of the Catholic issue, he asked Jack to withdraw from the presidential campaign. "Our disagreement on policy is total," says Jack. "We never...
...mass movement of convention-bound Kennedys. Bob is already on duty establishing the clan's convention headquarters, getting ready for the all-important, last-minute dickering. Jack headed for Cape Cod for a week's rest before moving on to Los Angeles and his moment of truth. Joe and Rose will pitch camp in a mansion, rented for the duration of the convention. Pat Lawford, a resident Californian, will have a front-row seat on the convention floor as a member of the California delegation, but she may have to cast her first ballot for Governor Pat Brown...