Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real and imagined. Once more Vice President Spiro Agnew served as eager spearhead, delivering another speech written by Nixon Aide Pat Buchanan. The broadside came on a mission to Alabama as part of Agnew's attempts to protect the Administration's Southern flank. The White House would like to prevent George Wallace from recap turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television news presentations to include print journalism (see THE PRESS). Agnew...
...will eventually emerge from the penumbra of Chappaquiddick to run for the presidency. If he does so, he will be alone in a way that neither his brothers nor his father could ever have anticipated. For now, with a tragic theatrical economy-assassins on cue, the paterfamilias dying like Priam after seeing his sons slaughtered, the calendar neatly pinching off the decade-the myth of the Kennedys is at least temporarily ended...
...family dinner table or in public. "It's just not an important enough matter to talk over," he said. His assessment was much too modest. Money underlies the family's unique position in American life, although money does not fully explain it. The Kennedy wealth, like the family's political capital, is both large and arcane. TIME asked Richard J. Whalen, Kennedy's biographer (The Founding Father), to take a fresh look at the fortune on the founder's death. His report...
When John F. Kennedy became President, it was disclosed that his personal holdings under the family trust funds were $10 million. The $500,000 gross gave him, after taxes, slightly over $100,000 a year to spend. Like the Boston Yankees from whom he learned so much, Joe Kennedy, in creating the trusts for his children, took precautions, stipulating that control over the principal should pass at stated age intervals. Before his death, the President, on his 45th birthday, had received one-half of the principal held in trust for him, with the remaining half under the discretionary control...
...management of the Kennedy fortune is Thomas J. Walsh, 45, an accountant and tax expert who has been employed by the family since the 1950s. In the hands of skillful men like Walsh, the heirs have no real cause for money worries. There will continue to be, in Joe Kennedy's terse public accounting, "enough." But enough for what? Surely enough to support generations of Kennedys in comfort. But when it comes to maintaining their political ascendancy and using money as effectively as the founder, the future is shadowed by doubt...