Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone always said we had a cabal of six people making decisions. It was true that I had never made a decision. I was also sure, however, that I had never wanted to. Someone had to make decisions and six seemed as good a number...
...first time a Kennedy had been booed in Boston. Humphrey had even cut his prepared speech to shout back at us. He promised to "do everything in my power to end the war if you elect me President." I had been in the first row and I was sure that Humphrey had looked at me during the yelling and had seen my clenched fist and work shirt with rolled-up sleeves. I was sure that I could see that that day, Humphrey had turned against the war. I was wrong...
...implication in his back-to-work announcement was that he carried a kind of renewed mandate. To be sure, the people of Massachusetts, from Pittsfield to Boston, had responded to Kennedy's testing of their faith with a sort of spontaneous plebiscite, an outpouring of letters and telegrams affirming their confidence. But, said the Boston Globe: "It is a bit like an umpire turning about in Fenway Park to ask the audience whether Carl Yastrzemski is safe at the plate...
...recalls that all the men in her life-father, husband, sons -have regarded politics "as a worthy ambition and honorable profession," and she clearly has not given up her hopes for her surviving son's political future. With conviction, she says: "I'm sure Ted can rise above all this...
...whether or not Kennedy was drunk at the time of the accident. The TIME-Har-ris poll showed that only 38% believe the Senator's claim that he "was not driving under the influence of alcohol"; 32% think that he was indeed affected by liquor, with 30% "not sure." By 51% to 31%, a majority agrees that "there still has been no adequate explanation of what he was doing at the party or with the girl who was killed...