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...blind trust. (Staffers have had to argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure...
...Carter's powers of incumbency ?his control of the party machinery in many states, of federal patronage and funds?are offset at least in part by strengths that Kennedy inherited from his brothers. Says Theodore White: "The shadow legions of the Kennedys stretch from Maine to San Francisco. Just as Ezekiel's prophecy had the power to wake the dead, the Kennedy name will bring out the people who remember the old days with the sentiment of youth...
...Determined not to allow Kennedy to dominate him or the news, Carter has geared nearly every recent move he has made to the primary battles (see following story). Some Democrats fear that the struggle between the two will irreparably damage the party's chances of holding on to the White House. To Democratic National Chairman White, the Carter-Kennedy fight is much like two railroad locomotives hurtling toward each other...
They have even begun to follow the tribulations of a whole new generation: young Teddy's cancer, David's drug problems and Joe's driving accidents. Now, the Senator from Massachusetts is reasserting the family's claim to the White House...
Every poll shows him with nearly a 2-to-l lead over Carter among Democrats and independents. Carter has disappointed almost every constituency that put him in office. And those constituencies, especially the blacks, Hispanics and working-class white ethnics who form the spine of the Democratic Party, seem ready to invest many of their hopes in Ted Kennedy...