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...DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, New York Times veteran war correspondent known for poignantly chronicling the effect of war on ordinary people in such places as Vietnam, Nigeria and Gaza; of apparent suicide; in New York City. Her book on the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers, won a National Book Award in 1978. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson told an interviewer later that she went to Vietnam because "they...
...that. On the other hand, his constituents were very much opposed. If he voted in favor, the people of Massachusetts would see him as someone who'd voted for a war that wasn't essential." In the end, Kerry voted with his constituents and perhaps with his memories of Vietnam. A second staff member offers an account that emphasizes the emotional quality of the vote. "It was too close [in time] to Vietnam. He just wasn't ready yet to send young Americans...
...great and small, were festering within the campaign. Some arguments had been festering, unresolved, for months. The biggest problem was Jordan, who had a positive genius for alienating Kerry's closest associates, including wife Teresa and brother Cam. Managing the various layers of consultants, personal friends, political cronies and Vietnam buddies that formed the Kerry safari was never going to be easy, but Jordan ignored Kerry's old Boston pals and dismissed their concerns about the Dean campaign. "There isn't a single f______ vote to be had on the Internet," Jordan said at one point, according to several Kerry...
...navigate, Kerry turns to his closest Senate colleagues. Chief among them is Kennedy, who not only recommended his chief of staff Cahill to put the campaign back on course but also has been a tireless booster and fund raiser. Former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia, a fellow Vietnam veteran and a triple amputee from that war, has become one of the candidate's most stalwart campaigners, validating Kerry's service and fueling the veteran-outreach operation that helped put Kerry over the top in Iowa. And for advice on how to translate his complicated foreign policy views from Senatespeak into...
Kerry's career as a politician began and almost ended in Lowell, a blue-collar city about an hour's drive northwest of Boston. Kerry moved to Lowell in 1972, three years after he returned to the U.S. from Vietnam. Back then Lowell "looked like Berlin after World War II," former mayor Robert Kennedy says. The mills were boarded up, and houses were burned out. In the overwhelmingly Italian and Irish community, people knew their neighbors and their neighbors' cousins twice removed. And nobody knew Kerry, who had parachuted into Lowell because it was part of the state's Fifth...