Word: samenesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The rest of the nation was more skeptical than Bay Staters. Yet the country was ambivalent. A Louis Harris poll commissioned by TIME revealed much sympathy for Kennedy. At the same time, the national survey found widespread doubts about Kennedy's explanation (see box, page 17).
The first party problem posed by his eclipse is what one Republican leader calls a "glamour vacuum." Another, potentially more serious threat is that Kennedy's removal from presidential politics -at least for now-could encourage the party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This...
Rose Kennedy's birthday on July 22 fell on the same day as Mary Jo's funeral, and the informal family dinner was held a few days later. In the rush of recent publicity, some reports gave her age as 80. She complains that a woman in her...
At the same time, there is a high degree of skepticism about Kennedy's explanation of the accident and his behavior afterward-and about the incident's bearing on his presidential aptitude.
In a national poll for TIME, Louis Harris found that a substantial majority of Americans interviewed (68%) feel that "it is unfair to be critical of the way Senator Kennedy reacted to the accident, because the same thing could have happened to anyone." By 58% to 30%, the public felt...