Word: kennedymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primaries. The Operation Kennedy cadre was spread too thin-there were not enough members of the Kennedy family, enough brisk young Harvardmen, enough seasoned toilers from the primaries to blanket the entire U.S. In some states, Bobby settled for second-rate, amateurish local leaders; in others, imported Kennedymen were hampered by local feuds and politicians jealous of outside intruders. Some states, such as Indiana, lent themselves to a formula of the local organization and the volunteers working together in happy harmony under the direction of a coordinator from headquarters. In a few places, such as Montana, the tough young Kennedy...
...dead-end session of Congress limped to an end, Kennedymen were confidently predicting that Jack's way with crowds would start gaining votes as soon as he could get out campaigning. The campaign had hardly begun. It would be won or lost, not in the South or the Farm Belt, or even in the big industrial states -New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and California-where Kennedy confidently counted his Catholicism an asset rather than a liability. It would be won or lost in the nation as a whole. For this is the first truly national campaign in which...
Delaware (11): Johnson may take half the delegation, but Kennedymen count 5 votes...
...Reston, that Kennedy should doubt the existence of a "Catholic vote" when his own staff had repeatedly claimed that the strength of the Catholic vote was a compelling reason for nominating him.* When Kennedy was fighting for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic convention, said Reston, Kennedymen circulated a memo arguing that the Catholic vote would swing several key states to the Democrats if Kennedy was on the ticket (TIME, April 18). Principal architect of the memo: Ted Sorensen, key man in the Kennedy-for-President organization...
...Wisconsin, with the crucial state primary just seven weeks away, the Humphreyites and Kennedymen were after each other tooth, nail and quill. Cries of "windbag" and "vote stealer" were hurled at Humphrey; Kennedy was labeled "soft on McCarthyism" and "tough and amoral." Brother Robert Kennedy, campaigning hard for Jack in Wisconsin, dropped some unsubtle hints that his (and Jack's) archenemy, tough Teamster Jimmy Hoffa, was backing Humphrey. Angrily, Humphrey retorted that "I have not sought Hoffa's support, and he has not offered it. The only time he came into my state recently was to say some...