Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tunney belabored Murphy mercilessly on his income from Technicolor, and repeatedly attacked the Senator's unquestioning loyalty to Nixon policy, particularly on Viet Nam and the economy. It was the economy, however, that seemed to score most heavily, because the state has some of the most severely depressed pockets in the country, and statewide unemployment is far above the national average. Murphy, Tunney charged, "who claims such close ties with the White House, has said or done nothing about it." By a surprisingly large margin, the voters agreed. Tunney captured most of the normal Democratic majority and attracted an estimated...
WHEN John Varick Tunney was first approached to run for Congress, he reacted with a frankness that he has since learned does not often make for political advantage. "People really think I ought to run for Congress," he wrote his wife. "Can you imagine that...
...took some imagination. Tunney was a liberal, had been a registered Republican, and the district-the 38th, which included Riverside, his home-was markedly conservative. It also took some special insight by a pretty fair political professional, President John F. Kennedy. His advice, relayed through Edward Kennedy, Tunney's law-school roommate and close friend: drop the name Varick, by which Tunney had been called since childhood. The skeptical Tunney ran a poll: 66% of his potential constituents associated the name Varick with Russia and/or Communism. (In fact, it was the surname of a Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that...
...just-completed Senate race, however, put an unaccustomed strain on the Tunney reputation. His performance in a primary he narrowly won was often wooden, and he vacillated on issues. He was described by critics as a "lightweight"-an obvious wordplay reference to his boxer father, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney...
...dominant Tunney image, however, almost parallels the Kennedys'. Tunney is tall, handsome, athletic-he skis, climbs Alps, scuba dives, sails-and his speech pattern and even his heavy shock of hair are pure Kennedy. His two brothers became his campaign managers-at Teddy's suggestion. His wife Mieke, a beautiful blonde he met in The Netherlands, and three children tend to make his Riverside base a kind of Hyannisport West. In Washington, the Tunneys often give quiet dinner parties at their mansion; the wine comes from a well-stocked cellar. Their social circle is an orbit close...