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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I want to thank the 28 Senators who promised to vote for me?and especially the 24 who actually did." But he was nonetheless shocked by the loss. He pulled himself together and became a very energetic Senator. At one point, he served on about three dozen committees and subcommittees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Since Kennedy became chairman of the Judiciary Committee last January, he has impressed other Democrats by his ability to get along with the committee's ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Night That Haunts Him | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Kennedy runs a special risk, of course, and not only because he lost two brothers to assassins. Says Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Somebody's Waiting for You | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Sheer coincidence, said White House aides: Carter just happened to receive right then assurances from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi that the expanded aid would actually get through to hungry Cambodians. Well, maybe. But Carter's whole week demonstrated that he is acutely aware of the powers of an incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Incumbency Is the Best Policy | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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