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...Richard Scammon, the elections analyst, came home from the first and last 1964 campaign meeting held by President John Kennedy just ten days before his assassination in November 1963. Scammon sat down with his wife Mary and with great snorts of laughter recounted that by his tally there were, around the table, eight Irish Roman Catholics and two Unitarians from the Middle West...
...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...mingling and neutralizing one another. The suspicion lingers in many minds that the whole affair will eventually fade, enduring only as a kind of 1970s cultural period piece, with no more moral significance than, say, a vicuna coat or a deep freezer. Even now, says Washington Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "Watergate does not have much impact on anyone any more. Fact and fiction are so interwoven that people don't know which is which. They don't remember the Saturday Night Massacre. They do remember the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that they saw on the late TV movie...
...official U.S. observer contingent: Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Congressmen John Murtha and Robert Livingston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Everett Briggs, University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, former University of California President Clark Kerr and Pollsters Richard Scammon and Howard Penniman...
...hostages are released, Richard Scammon believes, the stunning television spectacle of men and women kissing U.S. soil after a year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...