Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teddy & Eddie Sir: While watching Eddie McCormack and Ted Kennedy [March 23] drive by us (in separate cars) in the St. Patrick Day's Pa rade, I asked a local labor union president what the smart politicians were doing about the state Democratic primary. His terse re ply: "Leaving town." Boston SPENCER J. SCHEDLER Sir: In Massachusetts you can't see the forest for the family trees...
Denying that he would intervene energetically in the Massachusetts Democratic senatorial primary, in which his brother Ted is running against House Speaker John McCormack's nephew Ed, the President quipped: "We're not sending in any troops, just a few training missions. We're confining ourselves to the slogan, 'We'd rather be Ted than Ed.' " Referring to his sister-in-law, he said it was not true that "we're going to change the name of Lafayette Square to Radziwill Square-at least, not during my first term." About Jackie...
...same time, House Speaker John McCormack and Democratic Floor Leader Carl Albert were urging President Kennedy to oppose Vinson actively. Both the President's prestige and their own, they argued, would suffer if the White House remained silent under Vinson's assault. Finally, the President agreed to go to work. He had George Mahon called out of an executive meeting of his subcommittee, talked to him for over an hour in the White House. When Mahon returned to the Hill, he was committed to rounding up Democratic votes against Vinson...
...education, McCormack explained that while he would vote for a bill which provided federal funds only for public schools, he would also support a measure which included aid to parochial schools, if the money went for secular teaching...
...McCormack, also answered questions about the Alliance for Progress and the President's tariff bill, but reminded his audience that a senator does not make foreign policy. "Sometimes I wonder whether some of our candidates are running for senator or Secretary of State," he remarked...