Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will fly around the country, setting up campaign committees. Only a few of the draft-Kennedy volunteers will be taken on. In Kennedy's view, goodwilled, enthusiastic amateurs are fine for leafleting and doorbell ringing, but the running of campaigns must be left to professionals...
Says he: "It sure creates lots of excitement, but what you are left with in the end is a big train wreck." Other party pros argue that the primary fight will guarantee a bigger turnout of Democratic voters in November and a stronger commitment to the party's nominee among those who do turn out. Says Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford: "It's like cats in the night. You think they are fighting and killing each other, but all you get later on is more cats...
...advance of that announcement, Ted Kennedy is already putting the screws to Democratic Senators and Congressmen, competing with Carter for their endorsements. The pressure from both rivals is heavy and direct, and some Democratic politicians try to please both. As Kennedy left the Senate floor one day, a well-known Democrat who has already announced his support for Carter beckoned the Senator aside. The Democrat passed Kennedy a list of people in his home state who might help him campaign. Said Kennedy: "He's playing both sides. There's a lot of that. People are staying loose...
...Senate voted on the budget, Kennedy had changed his mind about reducing Pentagon spending. Far from cutting the defense budget, he voted to increase it to $141.2 billion, $18.5 billion more than Carter's original proposal. Said conservative Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina to Kennedy as they left the Senate floor: "I saw you vote for that, Ted. You ain't so bad. There's hope for you yet." Other Democrats thought otherwise. Complained Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie of Maine: "Like a good New England sailor, Kennedy has learned to tack with the wind." Kennedy did so, moreover...
...elected Democratic whip, making him second in command to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the aftermath of Chappaquiddick, however, Kennedy became distracted, neglected the job and left too many of his responsibilities to the No. 3 Democratic leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Byrd did the work so well that he upset Kennedy for the post...