Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next year. Kennedy has repeated that his only ambition now is to serve the full six years of his new Senate term. But political plans are never absolute. Despite the tragedy at Chappaquiddick Island 19 months ago, despite the embarrassing loss of his job a month ago as Senate whip, Kennedy's potential Democratic opponents will fix him with an apprehensive eye all the way through the 1972 convention. So will Richard Nixon. A Gallup poll released in January showed Muskie and Nixon running even with 44% of the vote each; but Kennedy, despite his setbacks, still drew...
...subconsciously tried to escape the possibility of the presidency, partly because of the fate of his brothers. The episode at Chappaquiddick, according to this elaborate speculation, was a subconscious effort to destroy his own presidential chances. So, too, in a lesser way, was his defeat for Senate whip...
Says Kennedy: "You take life in short bursts. Right now I look forward to the next few years in the Senate. I have important work to do." Not entirely by coincidence, that work is tailored to make Kennedy look like a candidate. Without his demanding whip's duties, he says. "I will be able to get around the country more." He is pushing a national health insurance program broader than the President's; he plans further attacks on the Administration's war policies, demanding a fixed date for U.S. withdrawal. His many other concerns-help for American...
...double-barreled blast at both the Times for "unfair insinuations," and at Connally's "friends" on the Finance Committee for giving "the appearance of wanting to shove the whole situation out of sight by forcing an immediate vote" on his confirmation. Michigan's Robert Griffin, the Republican whip, told Connally: "If this is all there is to it, the New York Times owes you an apology...
...further cloud the possibility that Kennedy might emerge as the presidential nominee next year. An aide to Leading Contender Edmund Muskie undoubtedly overestimated the impact when he proclaimed that "it was a smashing defeat ?I don't know where he can go from here." The whip's job may not cut all that keenly with many voters, especially those who have no high regard for the Senate. A few Senators even thought that the affront just might goad Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention...