Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainland, was on a diet of tranquilizers last week. In his own words, he had never investigated anything more serious than complaints of "snapping turtles or snakes in people's yards." Though Kennedy spent some time in Arena's office the morning after the accident preparing his initial statement, Arena never thought to question him. Nor were the other participants in the party interrogated. "After all," Arena told reporters, "when you have a U.S. Senator, you have to give him some credibility...
...television speech that Kennedy had some explaining to do. The usually sympathetic Boston Globe stated editorially: "It is in his own best interest as well as the public's that all the facts should come out." The Cleveland Press, reviewing the questions left unanswered by Ted's police station statement, declared: "The public is entitled to a better explanation than it has had yet." For all its smooth carpentry, the television statement did not dispel most such doubts and questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage in a mild and reticent way but gradually stepped...
...begun to make a record: speeches on Viet Nam, the space program and the ABM?all of them cautiously worked out with the help of advisers, on whom he relied more than his brother did. But he gained confidence in his own political judgment and seemed to believe a statement that has been attributed to both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, that Ted is the best politician in the Kennedy family...
...Prayers Sought How will the case affect Kennedy's political career? One factor will be to what extent the U.S. public accepts his TV account of the debacle. It was a slick, carefully written statement that was well-delivered, with uncanny echoes of the haunting John Kennedy voice. Apart from its failure to answer key questions, it was disturbing in other respects. It played somewhat cheaply on the "Kennedy curse" and brought in rather more than necessary the shades of the slain brothers. Above all, Kennedy seemed to want it both ways. He asked to shoulder the blame for what...
...nerve center of the flight, John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge that the U.S. would land a man on the moon "before this decade is out" flashed on a display board. Near by, a smaller screen carried Apollo 11 's Eagle emblem along with the immensely proud statement: "Task accomplished . . . July...