Word: vendettas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...
Since the New Yorker took the field and the President renounced a second full term, residual anti-Kennedy passions have quickened. Condemned variously for his antiwar stand, his "opportunism" in entering the race, his hippie hair, his pro-civil rights proclivities, his vendetta against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, his indentureship in the '50s under Joe McCarthy and myriad unspecified acts of vindictiveness, Kennedy seems to many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching...
Kennedy immediately seized on the vote as an end to the idea that any bid by himself would be a party-wrecking, personal vendetta against Johnson-the rationale he had earlier used for staying out. Now he could say that the split was already there and the "disastrous, divisive policies" of the Johnson Administration were to blame. Yet Kennedy himself, by his constant criticism, had helped cause division in the first place, and was well aware of the Democrats' dissensions long before New Hampshire. It was the practical demonstration that mattered: the results of the primary showed as nothing...
Hayes recalled his prediction, made the night DeGuglielmo was fired, that "Heads will roll within two weeks." After charging Crane with conducting a "personal vendetta." Hayes introduced a motion to remove Dunphy "for his own sake...
Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers Yorty, is "the Times's boy." Ignoring his charge, the Times has contented itself by noting editorially that "city hall will be as clean as Mayor Yorty wants...