Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the chandeliered, Corinthian-columned Senate Caucus Room, where his brother had launched his campaign eight years earlier, he began with the identical words that John F. Kennedy had used: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States." In front of Bobby was a throng...
He was laughed off as a windmill tilter, shrugged off as a lackluster campaigner, written off as a condescending cynic. But last week, when the votes in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary were counted, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eu gene J. McCarthy came off...
Galvanic Effect. Despite the fact that L.B.J. was a write-in candidate while his challenger's name was printed on the ballot, the narrowness of the President's lead amounted in all but figures to a victory for McCarthy. "I think I can get the nomination," the Senator...
To complaints that he is lazy, he points out that he has written four books since 1960 and averaged 125 major speeches a year outside the Senate. "Did they expect me to go to the Senate and do hand springs?" he asks. "To fulminate like Wayne Morse? Or to listen...
The first time was at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 1960. There were those who thought he wanted the nomination for himself; though he vigorously denied it, he was credited with having said that he deserved to be President because "I am twice as liberal as Humphrey, twice...