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Certainly he and Smith possess organizational talent; and both have learned something about New York's own style of polyglot politics in the campaign. They would have allies too in a bid for control. Nassau county's leader John English and the ailing Bronx boss Charles Buckley will surely offer their support...
...Kennedys are a resourceful clan; they faced West Virginia and Wisconsin and won. But New York may well prove different. Already reporters follow Robert Kennedy everywhere, attempting to unearth secret meetings with English, Buckley, and other party bossses. An overt Kennedy move will be news, and New Yorkers may well defeat in 1966 any obvious attempt to use their state to gain the presidency...
...spent more time in New York than anywhere else, Bobby was Massachusetts-born and -oriented, and a resident of Virginia besides. But he knew where the power was, quickly lined up New York's Democratic bosses behind him, notably Buffalo's Peter Crotty, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, and Charlie Buckley of The Bronx. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, reluctantly, also fell into line...
When Kennedy originally expressed interest in running, the first to support him were New York's Democratic party bosses--Buckley, Steingut, English, Powell and Crotty. But he declined to enter under their aegis--pledging instead that he would battle for continued party democratization and reform. In no way has he reneged or indicated he might renege on his promise...
Most of the year, the Murphys live in a comfortable brownstone town house on Manhattan's 64th Street, just around a couple of corners from the present Rockefeller apartment. James Murphy is at Buckley School, the two older girls at Chapin, Malinda at Central Presbyterian Nursery School, and no parent can do better than that...