Word: myer
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...myth machine chugs and rumbles, yet many old Kennedy hands deny that it exists--or that it ever did. "I've heard about this well-oiled machine for 40 years or more," says Myer Feldman, who first went to work for Senator John Kennedy in the late 1950s and remains close to the family. "Trust me, there's no such thing." Biographer Laurence Leamer (The Kennedy Men 1901-1963, due in October) sees the myth machine as a journalistic contrivance. "It's a useful way to sell books, to pretend that this thing exists," he says. "A writer gets...