Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, when Kennedy became an open candidate, he and Sorenson began to select the best advocates in each state, and the advance men-O'Brien, O'Donnell, Wallace, and Bob and Ted Kennedy -took to the road to recruit the local organizations. Based in Chicago, Raskin carried the Kennedy argument from Ohio to Oregon. At the time of the Hyannis Port meeting, there was a trusted lieutenant in every state, and the beginnings of a full-fledged organization in all of the key primary states-Wisconsin, Oregon, West Virginia, Nebraska, Indiana and New Hampshire...
Constitutionally, the group, which is a descendant of the Students for Rockefeller Club, is limited to activity in the New Hampshire primary, but it has the option to reorganize on a more formal basis later. The immediate problem, Scotch said, is to recruit members and raise money to supplement the $14 treasury bequeathed by the Students for Rockefeller, who voted at their final meeting not to donate the money to the Harvard Young Republican Club...