Word: mens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the same size as those of other committee chairmen. Generally in their 20s and 30s, his aides are exceedingly loyal and enthusiastic, and heartily disliked by colleagues on Capitol Hill for always putting Kennedy's interests first. Unlike most Senate staffs, Kennedy has no office manager. The senior men report directly to Kennedy. The most important aide is ten-year veteran Carey Parker, 44, Kennedy's balding, warmly humorous chief legislative assistant. The other top aides include Stephen Breyer, 41, who took a leave from his professorship at Harvard Law School to serve as chief counsel to the Judiciary...
Burke, 26, the Senator's administrative assistant. There are only men at the top level of Kennedy's staff; women work in subordinate jobs. Aides have urged him to put women in senior positions, but he has not done...
...Kennedy strode toward his six-room corner suite on the second floor, accompanied by half a dozen dark-suited Secret Service men, TV crews in the corridor snapped on their lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway?on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session...
...Steinway baby grand. It is, she told her children, "Mommy's apartment, not Daddy's." She strained to make a life of her own; studying for a master's degree in education at Lesley College, fund raising for the arts, even dating a few "safe" men...
...partygoers were Kennedy, five other men and six women. The women were all in their 20s and veterans of Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. After several hours over drinks, snacks and charcoal-broiled steaks, Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later that they intended to return to their separate hotels in Edgartown for the night. However, he headed in the opposite direction, toward a deserted beach. He drove down a bumpy dirt road and plunged off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the car, which...