Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator had been damaged beyond repair. The situation has been widely compared with Richard Nixon's own comeback from defeat and eclipse?although the cases are entirely different, since Nixon has never been involved in a personal tragedy of such significance. Some years of hard work and impeccable behavior might well restore Kennedy's chances in public life. Some political observers believe that his resignation from the Senate?even if he is overwhelmingly supported by the Massachusetts public?would only help that process by demonstrating his sincere contrition. " 'Never' is a long time," said one moderate Republican Senator. "Kennedy...
...want it both ways. He asked to shoulder the blame for what happened: "I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately." At the same time he was obviously also begging to be excused. "I would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign. I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think this through with me. In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion. In making it, I seek your prayers...
...suggestion that she might be involved in scandal would have appalled Mary Jo Kopechne. Then it might have amused her, for she was often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only...
...recent Gallup poll showing that 42% of the public considers itself Democratic, 29% Republican, and the balance independent. But many Republicans think that the G.O.P. now has the opportunity to capitalize on developing new alignments. Strategists differ on just how to turn the trick. One approach-which might be called the politics of retreat-is outlined in fascinating detail in a book published last week titled The Emerging Republican Majority...
...slipped back to where Lyndon Johnson was in 1967, he does not now appear interested in leading another crusade. It has been suggested -and McCarthy has not completely ruled it out-that he move to New York and run for the Senate in 1970 as an independent. But that might split the Democratic vote and ensure a victory for Charles Goodell, the Republican incumbent. As for the future beyond his present Senate term, McCarthy says: "I know what I want to do. Whether I'll do what I want to do is another question...