Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like these men in Hyannis Port (above), most Americans watched the progress of Kennedy's dramatic march to victory on television. They saw a vote race as close an any in modern times, a recognition of defeat without concession, and a couple of memorable individual performances...
Almost everyone felt that Hyannis Port was the home of the newly elected president of the United States, but few were willing to say they were sure. Both candidates were reportedly in bed, Nixon in Los Angeles and Kennedy in Hyannis Port. The election night watch had been on for 10 hours since the first post closed and for the first time in recent memory, the result was not yet known...
...place for the party faithful to gather, hear the returns, and either celebrate or grieve. The armory was reserved entirely for the press, and the local and state police kept out the public (which was not terribly enthusiastic, anyway, for the town of Barnstable, of which Hyannis and Hyannis Port are parts, is almost 5 to 1 Republican...
...Senate in 1954, Kennedy was the first Massachusetts Senator or Representative to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. His longshoremen constituents were furious, and the New England press dubbed him "the Suicide Senator" for supporting a scheme that could only damage the port of Boston. But Kennedy reasoned that Canada would undoubtedly build the seaway alone if the U.S. held aloof, decided that the nation might as well share in its ultimate benefits...
...Whether by design or scruple, Kennedy indeed did change his thinking in several areas: his position on farm subsidies switched from Benson's flexible supports to down-the-line 90% of parity. His biographer, James MacGregor Burns, calls him a genuine liberal who "had the helm fixed toward port but . . . was still dragging a small anchor to starboard...