Word: kennedyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Kennedy had hinted long before the death of Mary Jo that he might not run in 1972, no one took his privately expressed doubts very seriously. Aside from his name, vigor, personal attractiveness and political aggressiveness, Kennedy also seemed the leader best equipped to unite his party's...
The first party problem posed by his eclipse is what one Republican leader calls a "glamour vacuum." Another, potentially more serious threat is that Kennedy's removal from presidential politics -at least for now-could encourage the party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This...
But he is not, and at 58, with the close but bitterly divisive 1968 campaign behind him, Humphrey probably could not run for the presidency again without reducing the party to a shambles, splitting off the younger, activist wings that barely tolerated him last year. ∙EDMUND MUSKIE. In the...
∙ GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one...
Throughout the Kennedy saga of success and tragedy, Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the family, has endured with an equanimity that has amazed outsiders and inspired her children. Last week, in the only interview she has given since the latest travail began, she told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey of her beliefs...