Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Secretary of State. His Secretary of State will be an adviser and an administrator of John Kennedy's foreign policy." Republicans would be invited to participate in the area of national security ("It is not just a Democratic concern"), but, on balance. Kennedy's Washington would be partisan, egghead and dominated by one man: President Kennedy...
Except for the most predictably partisan of U.S. newspapers, publishers in 1960 seemed to be having a harder time than usual in declaring their choices in 1960. Nixon inevitably won the most editorial support, though Kennedy was doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm. Papers that chose Nixon often did so out of dedi cation to conservative domestic policies more than to any heartwarming tributes to Nixon himself. Kennedy enthusiasts were just as apt to temper their praise with good words for Nixon's policies and his experience...
...piece on Kennedy is a masterful, last-ditch attempt to play on the accumulated stated and unstated prejudices of the American electorate. Coming in the same issue as Time's critique of partisan columnists, it is doubly distasteful, Kennedy is portrayed as a vacillating politician getting by on looks: "There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him." The tired age question is dredged up again: "Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior...
With the bands and the comics, the smoke and the noise, the old Gothic jazz orchestras will furnish the music, structure must have seemed very much like a convention hall. Yet these were not delegates, but only enthusiastically partisan students, who were more, removed than they liked to believe from all national affairs...
Though constantly exposed to Democrats (his maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was Mayor of Boston), Kennedy was not particularly partisan. He was for Roosevelt, Holcombe remembered, "but there was not much to argue about in those days--you were either for FDR, or you weren...