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...chandeliered, Corinthian-columned Senate Caucus Room, where his brother had launched his campaign eight years earlier, he began with the identical words that John F. Kennedy had used: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States." In front of Bobby was a throng of 450, including Wife Ethel and nine of his ten children; behind him was the big, green-felt-covered table at which he had sat as counsel both for Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and for the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally curbed the Wisconsin Senator's power...
Exhibits A Through J. The next morning, looking almost relieved that contemplation was at last giving way to combat, Kennedy took the podium in the old Senate Office Building's Caucus Room, where John Kennedy had announced eight years before, where Eugene McCarthy had lodged his challenge four months ago. With him was Ethel, becomingly tanned from the ski slopes, one small boy attached to each hand and seven other children...
Mahoney--an M.I.T. professor who runs under the slogan "Professionalism in Government"--emerged from the caucus with a "Memorandum of Understanding" agreed to by the five. It called for a 90-day nation-wide search for a new manager, who would be required to have at least five years experience in municipal management...
Hayes and Alfred E. Vellucci (the just-elected vice-mayor) then clashed over an alleged bargain made at a caucus which they and the other three "independent" councillors attended prior to the election of Sullivan as mayor. Vellucci claimed that DeGuglielmo, speaking through Hayes, had agreed not to ask for public hearings on the dismissal motion. In return, none of the independents opposing the manager would call for a special meeting to speed his possible removal...
Hayes denied that any agreement had been made to forego hearings and said it would have been "presumptuous" of him to speak for DeGuglielmo, since he had no contact with the manager during the caucus. In reply, Vellucci roared, "You left that room many times and I don't know where you went...