Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merrick was reporting for the Holyoke, Mass., Transcript-Telegram. In the next 17 years Merrick often wrote about the Massachusetts Senator, tracing his career as one of history's most famous noncandidates. Now in this week's cover story, Merrick has Kennedy off and running at last as a formidable presidential candidate...
...comforting to know that President Carter has at last adopted the Teddy Roosevelt policy of diplomacy with a big stick, even though it is only a toothpick...
...hour later, showered and changed into a fresh dark-blue suit and white shirt, Kennedy is on the podium in the Sheraton's grand ballroom. He has been working on his address until the last moment, and sometimes he stumbles over the notes in the margins, but he is one of the most effective stump speakers in the country, and his vigorous attack on Jimmy Carter comes through loud and clear. Though he does not mention the President by name, the words leader and leadership keep recurring, 17 times in all. This is Ted Kennedy's main theme, tonight...
...last of the Kennedy brothers, the youngest, the most vulnerable, the most thoroughly political, is finally running for President. For more than a decade, he has distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at one point, "but not at this time." Now, disdainful of Carter's leadership, he has decided that the time is right. After a considerable amount of coy public indecision, he is expected to announce this week that he has formed a campaign committee, headed by Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith...
...Richard Dick, a high Virginia Democrat: "Kennedy's coattails in this state would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift for that battle last week when Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, previously a Carter supporter, gave word that she was switching and will back Kennedy...