Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy says he has thought it all out. He has been through so much already, he feels, that he does not see how this could be worse. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says. "Maybe it will be a lot worse than I think." Friends say that Kennedy is fatalistic about his life and about the special danger that he faces in running for President. For that reason, his family and closest friends refused their counsel when he asked for advice about getting into the race. To an outsider, one of them would admit only, "It's really scary." Says Kennedy...
...personally that he put some distance between himself and his brothers. "I'm proud of them, obviously," he said, "but I don't want nostalgia to be a part of this thing. Now the criticism will be aimed at me." He seemed pleased at that, sure of his own thought. Said he: "I'm the person who will be judged, not them...
...increase it to $141.2 billion, $18.5 billion more than Carter's original proposal. Said conservative Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina to Kennedy as they left the Senate floor: "I saw you vote for that, Ted. You ain't so bad. There's hope for you yet." Other Democrats thought otherwise. Complained Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie of Maine: "Like a good New England sailor, Kennedy has learned to tack with the wind." Kennedy did so, moreover, without explaining whether he wants to get the extra money for the Pentagon by cutting domestic programs or by increasing the budget deficit...
...Soviet Union, after concluding SALT II, started bringing medium-range weapons closer to their territory?" To drive home the argument, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported, other officials privately drew a parallel with Cuba in 1962. One Moscow editor told him: "There was a crisis when you thought missiles in Cuba could...
...varied. When convicts cried out under the lashes, onlookers occasionally tried to crash through police barriers to get a better look. When a prisoner managed to walk away unaided after his flogging, the people cheered. Midway through the proceedings, officials sidelined one of the whippers, whose strokes were not thought to be hard enough...