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Sargent Shriver's Death Severs the Last Major Link to the Kennedy Years
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyMinutes after Wyoming's 15 votes vaulted him over the top at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, John Kennedy arrived, under police escort, at the cottage that served as his political campaign center. As campaign chronicler Theodore White recounted, "Kennedy loped into the cottage with his light dancing step, as young and lithe as springtime. . . . He descended the steps of the split-level cottage where his brother Bobby and his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver were chatting, waiting for him." The death Tuesday of 95-year-old Sargent Shriver – who accomplished far more than any ...
An Anti-War Challenge to Obama in 2012: The Case for Alan Grayson
By Mark I. Pinsky - Politics DailyORLANDO, Fla. -- Current Beltway consensus holds that the 2012 race, like 2010, will be a referendum on the economy. But what if, instead, the war in Afghanistan, which Barack Obama has embraced, deteriorates dramatically, requiring a delay in the scheduled troop withdrawal or, worse, forces another escalation? Might Democratic anti-war sentiment -- until now a sleeper issue -- turn rebellious? Already, national polls show a plurality (Pew) or a majority (Quinnipiac) opposed to remaining in Afghanistan, with the margins of opposition rising. A Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted Dec. 9-12 ...
Congress as a Family Business: Brothers (and Sisters and Sons) in Arms
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyThey often won by running against Washington and pledging to govern as outsiders. But when the freshmen of the 112th Congress take their oaths of office in January, they'll find that some of their senior colleagues have made the House and Senate quite the family business Think spouses, sisters, brothers and cousins, an octet of lawmakers serving together in one or both chambers. Last week's Senate win by Rand Paul (R-Ky.), son of 11-term Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), revived the category of concurrent filial service, which had been dormant for more than a year. From 1995 to 2009 it was occupied ...
Paul Kengor Discusses His New Book, 'Dupes'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDr. Paul Kengor, author of "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century," joined us on today's podcast. Kengor informs us that George Washington warned of "dupes" in his farewell address, and that prior to becoming president, even Ronald Reagan was duped by the communists. "A dupe is really innocent," says Kengor. "Most dupes are well intended." Kengor also notes that some liberals, such as Woodrow Wilson (a frequent target of Glenn Beck), came out looking good in his book. As Kengor says, Wilson was appalled by the godlessness of the Bolsheviks and the ...
Patrick Kennedy Writing Memoir as He Leaves Congressional Career
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRep. Patrick Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcohol and drug abuse, is writing a memoir called "Coming Clean" as he leaves behind an up-and-down career on Capitol Hill. Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, announced earlier this year he would not seek a ninth term. He missed the counsel of his father who died last year and appeared to be no longer enjoying his time in Congress. In May, he denounced the news media for not paying enough attention to the work of Congress: "it is despicable -- the national press corps right now," he said, lashing out on the House ...
Carter Blames Kennedy for Health Reform Delays
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- If not for the political maneuvering and delaying tactics of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Americans would have had comprehensive health care coverage decades ago, says Jimmy Carter in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes." The former president tells correspondent Lesley Stahl that Kennedy acted out of a political grudge to kill a health care bill pushed by Carter. ...
Jimmy Carter Blames Ted Kennedy for Health Care Reform Delays
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIf not for the political maneuvering and delaying tactics of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Americans would have had comprehensive health care coverage decades ago, says Jimmy Carter in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes." The former president tells correspondent Lesley Stahl that Kennedy acted out of a political grudge to kill a health care bill pushed by Carter. "The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed," Carter says. "It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill." ...
Jan Brewer's Bad Night Conjures Up Other Memorable Debate Moments
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer's long and awkward pause in her gubernatorial debate was the talk of political junkies this week. Why she froze was anybody's guess. The governor compounded her problems by preceding her uncomfortable interlude with an inaccurate claim (that she balanced the state's budget) and by following it with an ungrammatical sentence: "We have did what was right for Arizona." The governor's lapse immediately took its place in the pantheon of memorable moments in political debates, a category full of gaffes, one-liners, whoppers, ill-advised gestures, zingers, and the occasional ...
Kennedy Patriarch Touted J. Edgar Hoover for President
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 15) -- J. Edgar Hoover for president? Well, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, apparently thought it was a good idea in the 1950s, according to an essay Hoover wrote that was included in the newly released FBI files on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. In a letter dated Oct. 13, 1964, Ted Kennedy wrote Hoover to say he was "putting together a short book of recollections of my father" and wanted his father's good friends like Hoover to contribute. Hoover agreed, and a month later sent off the seven-page essay to Kennedy. Getty Images / MCT Joseph ...
FBI: Sen. Kennedy Targeted by White Supremacists
By not in system - AOL News(June 14) -- Newly released FBI files on the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy show he was a magnet for threats by white supremacist groups unhappy with the pro-civil rights stance of the Democratic Party and the three Kennedy brothers during the 1960s. ...
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