Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy early and hard. Last week Carter used ridicule to attack Kennedy. Said the President, at a dinner for supporters: "I asked my mama. She said it was O.K. My wife, Rosalynn, said she'd be willing to live in the White House for four more years." The point, said a Carter operative, is to test whether Kennedy has "the stomach to go through the humiliating, deflating experience of fighting for the nomination." Says another Carter aide of Kennedy: "He's going to get clawed. He's going to bleed, and then he's going to start dropping...
...want to run for President now, when he could have waited until 1984, as some supporters urged him to do? Kennedy circled the question carefully in an interview with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. The Senator was wary of sounding too self-serving, but he soon raised a point that he rarely discusses. "Because I'm ready now," he said, looking straight ahead. "I've made my own record. I'm a man of the Senate, and I can be judged on that." He explained that it was important to him personally that he put some distance between himself...
...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, more than any other Senate member, and too many to be efficient, as he later learned. Senators on both sides of the aisle have come to respect him as an able legislator, on the Senate floor and in its hearing rooms. Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker calls...
...seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read an opening statement in a sure, powerful voice, but lapsed into the stammering, wandering style that sometimes makes his questions or unrehearsed remarks seem relatively incoherent. Said he at one point to the witnesses: "The case we, uh, that has to be made, and I'd like to see what each of you has to say on this, is uh, why should we do it for Mexico and why not others?" (Kennedy at times seems uneasy with statistical charts and figures, jumbling...
Next morning, Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at the inn. They returned to Chappaquiddick at about 9 a.m. and entered a shack near the ferry slip, where Kennedy tried in vain to phone a family friend, Attorney Burke Marshall. At that point, Ferryman Richard Hewitt asked if they knew about the wrecked car, which had been discovered by some fishermen. Hewitt later testified that Markham replied, "Yes. We just heard about it." Only then did Kennedy go to the police station and report the accident...