Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although Hughes is already costing him campaign workers, funds and liberal support, and will cost him votes if and when he confronts a Republican in November, McCormack evinces a personal sympathy and respect for the Harvard professor that is totally absent when he discusses Ted Kennedy. "I don't go as far as Stuart Hughes," he reiterates in a tone that encompasses apology, relief and savvy, "but against a Republican we'll be pretty close to the same pole...
...primary convention to be held at Springfield next week-end, McCormack is not so openly confident as his staff. "You can't be optimistic," he shrugged: "I'm not counting anyone who says he's 'leaning towards me'." He knows that it will take real political guts for a delegate to stand up and be counted against the Kennedy family. Obviously that clan will be influential for some time to come, and the extent to which the President actually backs his brother's campaign is devilishly ambiguous. The official silence from the Washington branch is little solace to the convention...
...Stuart Hughes, running as an independent, is beginning to cause McCormack some annoyance. Questioning the wisdom of Hughes' candidacy, McCormack said yesterday that "disarmament is such a dramatic issue that it would be raised in the campaign anyway. Then too, Hughes identifies disarmament with a political losing cause...
...tall handsome man with dark blond hair, McCormack wears the rough edges that a public school background, a stint at Annapolis, three years of active duty in the postwar Pacific and a decade of Boston politics have etched into his voice and bearing. He has a personal power and assurance that Ted Kennedy simply cannot match at this stage...
...While McCormack has to fear the intangible coercive power that the Kennedy name has acquired, he is the last man in Bay State politics to mistake it for appeal. At any rate, he's too busy to be running scared...