Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letter Writer William N. Thompson [Oct. 15] says, quite insultingly, that "a healthy [worker] voluntarily living on a pension financed for the most part by today's productive workers is living on welfare ... If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force to pay for it." I am going to voluntarily choose leisure next spring because there are other things I want to do, but it will be paid for by my money, the Social Security salary deductions I have been paying since the program started in the 1930s. How dare...
...contrary. Chappaquiddick is as much a part of Senator Kennedy's background as is the date of his birth Considering its implications, it merits serious discussion and consideration...
...most part, Kennedy's campaign will be led by a different cast of characters. The overall direction is in the hands of Kirk, who served as Kennedy's top Senate aide for eight years. He is one of Kennedy's closest political cronies and one of the ablest political strategists in the country. Rick Stearns, 35, a former assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, who was a strategist for George McGovern in 1972, will be the campaign's delegate hunter, trying to fill the Kennedy slates. Carl Wagner, 34, who was Kirk's successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will...
...Carter's powers of incumbency ?his control of the party machinery in many states, of federal patronage and funds?are offset at least in part by strengths that Kennedy inherited from his brothers. Says Theodore White: "The shadow legions of the Kennedys stretch from Maine to San Francisco. Just as Ezekiel's prophecy had the power to wake the dead, the Kennedy name will bring out the people who remember the old days with the sentiment of youth...
They have done so partly because of a nostalgia for his brother's Administration, for Camelot. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Kennedy's popularity is an accumulated, generational perception. He is part of the American culture." No matter that John Kennedy blundered into the Bay of Pigs and first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...