Word: questions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much more support; it would just slop over. The question is how much of that reservoir will he have to draw down...
Kennedy feels he can make the question of leadership more important than any single issue, and quite a few politicians agree. Argues Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "The nation is looking for a politician of stature, perhaps as a substitute for solutions...
...Democratic struggle is forcing Republicans to reassess the free-for-all in their own party. Many G.O.P. leaders fear that a Carter victory would make him much harder to beat in November. Says G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "He would have successfully met the question of his leadership and taken some of the wind out of issues that we would like to have first crack at." But the prospect of a Kennedy victory poses even more imponderables for Republicans. If the Democratic tide runs toward Kennedy, would the G.O.P. want to field its aging front runner, 68-year-old Ronald...
...does Kennedy 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...
Since Kennedy became chairman of the Judiciary Committee last January, he has impressed other Democrats by his ability to get along with the committee's ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal judgeships should be required to resign from private clubs that discriminate against blacks. The problem arose over Carter's nomination of a Tennessee jurist, Bailey Brown, to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Brown had a strong pro-civil rights record as a district court judge, but he stubbornly refused...