Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This very fact has political value-as President Kennedy, a marvelous politician, well knows. By readily admitting that things are not so good as they ought to be, any success, no matter how small, can be magnified and trumpeted as a major achievement...
...Esquire, Playwright Gore Vidal, a dilettante politician, concedes re-election in 1964 to President Kennedy, then hands 1968 to Brother Bobby (over Nelson Rockefeller). With that out of the way, Vidal, whose stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, is also Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, lets Bobby have it. "There are flaws in Bobby's person hard to disguise," he writes, with no intent to disguise them. "For one thing, it will take a public relations genius to make him appear lovable. His obvious characteristics are energy, vindictiveness, and a simple-mindedness about human motives which may yet bring him down...
...lows, the upsurge in consumer spending, and the higher depreciation allowances that have already boosted companies' cash flow. Some of the earlier rancor against President Kennedy has even softened, not necessarily because businessmen think Kennedy is a friend, but because they rate him too wise a politician to hurt business deliberately...
...Earl Warren," most of them paid for by Frank H. Benning, 36, a member of the John Birch Society. The Atlanta Committee to Impeach Earl Warren wired Warren: YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. The North Side News, a scruffy Atlanta weekly, called Warren "a California politician who has the Fascist heart of a dictator." Handbills signed by an "Alumni Committee to Combat Communism at Georgia Tech" begged people to "let this unwelcome visitor speak to the empty hall he deserves, or attend...
Born. To Moira Shearer, 37, titian-haired British ballerina-actress (The Red Shoes) and Ludovic Kennedy, 43, radio and TV broadcaster and sometime Liberal politician: their fourth child, first son; in Amersham, Buckingham...