Word: kennedyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans are inclined to accept many of the details of Kennedy's explanation: that he took the wrong turn onto the bridge road by mistake, that he dived several times in an effort to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne, that he returned later with Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan in...
When asked whether, on the night of the accident, Kennedy seemed more interested in his political future than in what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne, 38% agreed. By an overwhelming 77% to 14%, respondents said that Kennedy was wrong not to report the accident immediately.
By 65% to 16%, the public gave Kennedy high marks for his performance in the Senate. Yet the TIME-Harris poll reflects a widespread uneasiness about Kennedy as a presidential possibility. Forty percent agreed with the statement that "he panicked in a crisis and showed that he should not be...
In terms of the overall respect in which Kennedy is held, the poll indicated no radical shift as a result of Chappaquiddick: 63% said that they held him in the same degree of esteem now as before; 5% said that they had more respect; 28%, less respect. Trial heats now...
Saving Face. It was Dirksen who saved the Administration from its own intransigence. Acting without White House approval, he met quietly with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and negotiated a face-saving compromise. Mansfield, unwilling to saddle his party with the political responsibility for the death of the surtax, readily agreed...