Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General McCormack's Irish eyes were not smiling yesterday afternoon as reporters besieged him for a statement on the growing Boston Common garage scandal. Six men had been indicted and he promised to try the case before leaving his present office, but then he asked into the phone: "You want me to say it's fine?...that justice has been served? Well, you can't gloat because six poor souls find themselves in a mess...
...wasn't what the press really sought, but McCormack has never lunged for headlines. He has been an active and competent attorney general while avoiding sensational probes...
...hard for McCormack to contemplate Kennedy's recent comment on Meet the Press--"I'm in this fight alone, I am running as Ted Kennedy the individual"--without wincing from the irony. People at McCormack headquarters describe a poll in which half the women at a supermarket who supported Kennedy in the race gave his first name as Jack. McCormack's staff seems to regard Kennedy's presence in the race more as an insult than a challenge. They point out that he has just reached the qualifying age and his experience is limited to a short uneventful term...
...despite the broad rivalry between the two family dynasties it is a further paradox that McCormack must run as an anti-Kennedy candidate. The picture of the President that adorns the wall of his office suggests the similarities between the two men. Ideologically McCormack is a liberal with the Kennedy blend of soaring, egalitarian rhetoric and halting political pragmatism. Other pictures on the mantle show the candidate with Harry Truman and Pope John XXIII...
...matters of civil rights and civil liberties McCormack thinks the Administration's record could stand much improvement. He has urged the President to issue the Executive Order against discrimination in public places he promised so forcefully during the 1960 campaign. He is also openly critical of Robert Kennedy's wiretapping proposals." "According to the Attorney General," McCormack complains, "he should be the only person in the United States who can make an invasion of some-one's privacy without proving to the court that it was in the public interest." McCormack then points to a bill he introduced in Massachusetts...