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Word: kindliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describes handing out cash-filled briefcases to politicians who would do his bidding and keeping a careful watch on the progress of his sons. "The old man even had a maid in Jack's Washington house who reported to him," O'Neill says. President Kennedy is portrayed as the kindliest member of that clan, willing to meet with a friend of O'Neill's who wanted to bid on a large construction job overseas even though the man had not been an early Kennedy supporter. But Robert Kennedy is depicted as ungracious and ruthless. "To me, he was a self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Speaker Speaks His Mind MAN OF THE HOUSE | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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