Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former speech writer, Theodore Sorensen, in New York, 3) former Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, in Washington, 4) an unlisted Boston number and 5) Sorensen again. The phone calls, if indeed made, would be damaging evidence that, far from being a dazed accident victim, Kennedy was a lucid politician trying to avoid a scandal. There remains the possibility that someone else could have made the calls, using Kennedy's credit-card number...
...Senate by a 51-50 vote. The narrow margin of victory on its major section spelled trouble for the balance of the bill. Last week, before the Senate's adjournment until after Labor Day, other sections of the bill were debated and trimmed. Stennis, an able and astute politician, had anticipated the Senate's antimilitary mood and cut $2 billion from the bill in his committee. Yet he was shocked to find that, once it had reached the floor, his fellow Senators demanded still further cuts. "Take out the tanks, take out the carriers, take out this, take...
...that is not exclusively his own. It is assumed that the people's right to know includes the right to know all, or almost all, about their chosen leaders: health, habits, character and foibles. The public's curiosity is insatiable, and often for good reason. If a politician behaves badly in private matters, he might act the same way in his public duties. That, at any rate, is the theory that has always linked scandal and history, low gossip and high statesmanship...
Italy is sunnily tolerant of sexual peccadilloes; in a land without divorce, why should an unhappily married man of wealth and influence not be allowed a mistress? What an Italian politician must guard against is making a brutta figura -roughly, a fool of himself. The late Communist Party boss, Palmiro Togliatti, left his wife to live with a woman 27 years younger than he; yet his standing in politics was unaffected. By contrast, Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani was forced to resign from office in 1965 simply because his wife made a mistake. The right-wing magazine Il Borghese published...
Official Curiosity. Dinis' role in the investigation has been at best inconsistent. A flamboyantly aggressive lawyer and ambitious Democratic politician, Dinis has had cool relations with the Kennedys. They have declined to help him in his campaigns for higher office. Yet initially he remained aloof from the case, even declining to order an autopsy when the body was still in his legal jurisdiction. He made no move for an inquest or thorough investigation while witnesses were still in easy reach. Official curiosity overcame Dinis only after the press demanded more information and a national mood of skepticism about...