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‘2 THE EXAMINER OCTOBER 24, 1963 Victor Lasky’s “if'K: The (Continued From Page 1) John Kennedy himself| apartment at 123 Bow: however, was not an enrolled Democrat. ‘The law clearly provided that] ot while a serviveman could register fo. ee by mail, he must appear in, Person to enroll as a member of a politicel party, Jack Kennedy od not done 20. ‘The last filing day was April 30. To be cligible to file, @ candidate ‘would have had to be a certified | werty member for not lest then’ Shirly days before that date: ‘Kennedy's oversight was dit-; covered on April 2. The following | day—twenty-seven days before; ‘he filing day—he quietly slipped into City Hall where he registered ‘ara Democrat. He did this des- pite the fact that the law per- mitted no exceptions. . ‘A small, inconsequential technt- cotity? Perhaps. Yet, as Ralph G. Martin and Ed Plaut put it 20 delicately ip their friendly book, Sront Runner, Dark Horse,” it war “an embarrassing moment that would have been fatal to any~ one whose name wasn't Kennedy. ‘Takes Over From Brother Joseph, Kennedy had originally envisioned his eldest son Joe J Sethe politician in the family. Toll, handsome, outgoing and ro-! buet, Young Joe—the photographs show—was his father to the life, They were also alike ideologically. ‘At Harvard Law Schoo! he helped Gresrize 9 keep-America-out-ot war group and made speeches de~ Trying United States intervention, in Tn one speech he dectared the United States, would be better off dealing with a | Nazi-occupied Europe an a barter aystem than engageing jn total war fn the side of Great Britain. || ‘Young Joe launched his political ‘career in 1940 gs an anti-Roosevelt | delegate at the Democratic’ National Convention, pledged to support Jamee A, Farley for Presi | dent. The episode provided ‘another chip of ice in the cool ex-| pense that eventually divided the Kennedy and Roosevelt families. Four years Inter, Joseph Kennedy , Jr. died a hero's death in the European war, And it was fore-| erdained that, as the next in line, |} Ninn F. Kennedy would take his Blace and carry on for the family. "y thought everybody knew about that,” Father Joe once said fo author Joe McCarthy. “Jack went into polities because Young Jee died, Young Joe was going to be the politician in the family, When he died, Jack took his place.”| Who's Jack Kennedy? At the outset of the 1948 eam- poign the voters wondered who ‘this handsome, seemingly shy out sider was, He didn't live in Borton and was a newcomer to politics, True, his parents were Bern in the District and his grand- father hed controlled its votes. Bul he bad grown up elsewhere, and he knew little about the area de wanted to represent in Con- grees, Later he observed that the only person whom he really Innew there at the time was his grandfather Honey Fitz, the for- fer Boston mayor and veteran of tany political wars. He was then eighty-three and living in retire- ment at the Hotel Bellevue, 3 golitical hangout adjacent to the State House on Beacon Hil. But in polities, money atones for aany deficiencies. ‘The problem of a legal residence was quickly solved. A suite was rented for Jack at the Bellevue ‘Hotel, and in filing his papers as @ candidate for office he used it ak his, official address. Actually ‘wntil then, his legal residence wor Palm Beach, the home of his father. Later he scquired as hie idoin Street across from the State House on top, Beacon Hill. (Bobby and Teddy, along with their wives, have also used the Bowdoin Street apartment as their Tegal address, The truth is none ‘of them ever used the apartment for any length of time, The apartment serves one purpoee ‘only: fo give the Kennedy brothers! & political residence. In March 1960 some Mapeachuests Demo- erats moved to bar Bobby from going to Los Angeles as a conven- ‘fon delegate on the grounds he: was not a Bay State resident. Bobby, it was then pointed out, lived on @ palatial Virginia estate, and at one time considered making the O14 Dominion his political bate. The only time in recent years Jack used the Boston fist, was for an Ed Murrow “Person to Person” TV appearance with his wite.) Chume—And Prot It was in the 1946 campaign that Jack Kennedy firet employed the techniques that were to bring him electoral success after - success, First, he had gotten off to an early start! Long before his rivals be: stirred themselves, he was cam- paigning. Then he began building his own personal organization | composed of college chums, war- time shipmates, and Ivy Leaguers. Some were Republicans, and most were uncommitted ideologically. But all pitched in to help out Good ‘Then there was Timothy (Ted) Reerdon, one of Joe Jr's buddies, ‘who was to be part of the Kennedy entourage ‘all the way to the White House. But “Joseph P. Kennedy was, taking no chances with the likes of these. He -brought in’ a phelanx of peasoned ward heelers. Toe ‘Ambassador had the final word on who was fo be put on the payroll. ‘The Ambassador brought in Francts X, Morrissey, once secre- tary to Governor Maurice Tobin, ‘campaign manager. (By 1961, Morrissey —a municipal court Judge, thanks to Jack Kennedy—' was shepherding Ted Kennedy around the state, getting him to meet the right folks, just ai he bad done with Jack tn 1946.9 To teach Jack politics, the Am- dassador brought in his first cousin Joe Kane, a forty-year veteran of the Bay State's political wars. Kane provided young Jack with an in- sight into the mechanfes of polit!- cal infighting. ~"In politics,” he (drummed into bis protege’s bead, “you have no friends, only co- conspirators.” Tt was Kane who! suggested that Kennedy avoid announcing for office until almost the last minute. The idea was to keep the political opportunists from jumping into the primary— \an old Boston custom—hoping for payoffs to remove themselves a5 candidates, Finally, on April 22, 1946, eight days affore the filing deadline, Jack Kennedy formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic ABOUT THE ‘AUTHOR Victor Lasky, author of the sizzling “JFK: THE MAN AND THE MYTH,” is 2 walking en- cyclopedia of Kennedyans. His first book on Kennedy, called “JOHN F. KENNEDY, WHAT'S BEHIND THE IMAGE?”, was published just before the 1960 election and was an exhaustive comparison of Kennedy's vot- ing record in the Senate with his platform as a Presidential candidate. His current book is being published by Macmillan & Company and is expected to be the major publishing event of the year. Lasky aiso co - authored (with Ratph de Toledano) the best-selling account of the Alger Hiss cate, “SEEDS OF TREASON,” published in 1950. ‘A graduate of the tough Chicago school of journalism, Lasky has worked on the CHI- CAGO SUN, covered World War II os 6 Stars &, Stripes war correspondent, thett joined the staff of the NEW. YORK WORLD TELEGRAM & SUN. He bas also written hun- dreds of magazine articles on national end international af- fairs — trom THE SATURDAY EVENING POST to the NEW LEADER to THE SATURDAY REVIEW. ‘Today Lasky writes a weekly column for NORTH AMERI-, CAN NEWSPAPER ALLI + ANCE and THE EXAMINER called “Say Tt Straight!” He lives in New York with his wife, Pat, and his poodle, Charlie Brown, Old Jack. ‘There were, for ex- ample, Lem Billings, Jack's room- mate from Choste, in from Balti- more; and Red Fay who, having served with Jack in the PT squad- . <Ohlicial, residence. a, three room. Ton, few, in {rpm San Francisco. nomination for United _ States Representative from the Eleventh (Massachusetts District, “The temper of the times imposes an obigation upon every thinking | citizen to work diligently in peace, ‘as we served tirelessly in wer,” he | declared. Ran On Hia War Record Kennedy ran on his heroic war record. According to the private polls financed by his father, this is what the people were interested jin—the story of how he won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in ‘the South Pacific. And Kennedy, \with appropriate modesty, would ted, and retell the story’ betore! ympaign audiences, usually re- ing to himself in the third jperson, ("The commanding J officer of the PT 109, believing it | to Je'a Japanese destroyer, turned the bow of his PT to make a tor- pedo attack . . .”) ‘Then he would describe the death struggle that lay ahead between collectivism and capitalism, wind- ing up with this stock exhortation: “We in this country must be will ing to battle for the old ideas which have proved their value, with, the “same enthusiasm that peare do for new ideas and sreebh.” One critic noted it sounded more lke Joseph Patrick Kennedy then like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ‘As the campaign progressed, Kennedy's Ivy" League advisers proposed changing the tenor of the speech. _ While there was nothing wrong with patriotism as a gim- mick, they pointed out that the Eleventh District had some serious. breaq-and-butter problems. A new speech was evolved by @ sort of brain-storming, one that yent control, more and betier housing, higher minimum wages fobs, ete, Attirst the rest of the candidates Jaughed Kennedy off, the nation. Man And The Myth ° discussed such Issues as price and] ‘Then, as campaign progressed, the taunte changed to°outright indlg- Charges were voiced that Kennedy was trying t Old Joe buy the election for bis “carpet- ‘son”—charges that were to ring in Jack's ears throughout his Honey Fitz, it was proof positive } he { political career. ,of the political viritity of Grand- ‘Once Mike Neville, Kenndy’s' son Jack. So stirred was Grand- rival in the primary, walked into! father Fitzgerald that he climbed $10 Dill hanging out of bis breast quarters that night ‘and danced & packet. : stiff-legged Irish jig and sang in a “That's = Kennedy campsign cracked voice “Sweet Adeline.” Gomes The Clon colorful and rascally breed of Meanwhile, flying in from-,Boton Irish politics. A new everywhere were other Kennedys! breed of politician was shout t to be repeated in future elections. (Next—Freehman On The Hill) Ci iter elections meer, ey : l were to be supplemented by wives 22: Truman All For garded by many Bostonians foreigners. "As soon af the Iast tvéle is counted,” one newsman Job, If He Wants Ywives and husbands are hurrying: . to the airport to catch the next _ NEY YORK (N.Y. News)—If plane out of town. They don’t Former President Eisenhower down.”) vice president, he pes the. right 2 Kennedys swarmed into the HY, “like anyone else,” Harry 5. wards, going from house to house, TTUman Bays. 4 offered that opft when asked and telling ‘thousands of valet “about reports that Eisenhower bas Se eee orate race been inguiring into the legality of h ‘Ac to whether tke in the No.2 Kennedy sometimes went to half spot would strengthen a GOP a oven of them In a tingle even~ tleket, Truman sal the only Way | supplied everything—coffee, cook~ ’ $0 MY. ty on Len, china, silverware, lowers, At! g,Crrenes insist Thess curser oF campaign headquarters a careful Seademic.) ¥ ‘attended the parti i parties. Later, they| qyuman smilingly ruled hi in smilingly ruled himselt rete gsked to talk to thelr nelgh~' out as vice presidential timber for - the Democrats. Joe Kennedy could possily have said, “but if I were 58—" known, His firet cousin Joe’ Other Truman remarks, in- Kane seid leter it was “a stegger- eluded: . " most of it was unnecessary: “Jack "I don't know anything sbout could have gone to Congress like‘ her and I don't give @ damn about ‘everyone else for ten cents.” ber.” #0 much? eaclal Intermarriage—“Vve re Because, said Kane, be was, received a stack of malt and all taking no chances on any possible. but a few letters favored my got, he bought and paid for,” he’ senve. wt of them came ‘added, “And polities is like war.’ from the South.” Tt takes three things to win, The The Valachi hearings—“I think money and the third is money.” ‘The three-most notorious Miss~ Primary day—June 18, 1946— ouri characters——Jesse James, tinally raed around. Tis was’ bandit; Champ Clark, noted con in the primary would be the next one-time president, ‘Congressman. | "Ana to no one's great surprise,| HAND THAT WASHES Kennedy's name led all the rest, CANNES, France (WNS)—The double that obtained by his closest! girls is a bar of soap made fn the vival Mike Neville. shape of the hand of Johnny Hal- Tt was for the Clan Kennedy e lyday, France's rock ‘n’ roll sing- the State House press room with #'on to a table at campaign head~ button,” he aaid. rit was the swan song of the ok, —thus setting © pattern that was ‘ke over. - * |and husbands and were to be re~ Ike Seeking GOP said, “the Kennedys and their ‘even wait until the tents are taken should decide he wants to rdn for ringing doorbells, cradling babiee,! IKE White House predeceasos’ ;neigbborhood hove parties, "™h 4 condincy The Kennedy organization ge ean find out fe to try. record was kept of everyone who ‘Rutes Seif Out How much was spent? Only, “t's too late to start at 71 ing sum." But Kune contended, Regarding Mme. Ngo Dini Nbu ‘Then why did his father spend — Regarding his stand against slip-up. “Everything his father position, which ja just common first is money and the second is they heve some value.” ‘the day that counted. The victor | gressional figure; Harry S. Truman, when the votes were counted, Jack |. He received 22,183 votes, almost! latest beauty product for teen-age wweet victory, indeed. For Old ing star. Winter Rejuvenation No Job For A Slouch VENICE, Italy — (WNS) — Royal beauty expert Luc- chino Bontempi has put the aging contessas he counsels on ‘a winter rejuvenation routine of pinching, kneading. grim- ‘acing and yawning to take at least five years off their ages. > ‘Jo stimulate blood circulation and get rid of feciat be prescribes wetting the face with poisons and impurities, inching it al over with thumb and warm water, then Later, the skin should be kneaded with both hi as if it were dough being prepared for the baking oven. ‘Then it should be patted, slapped and lightly punched. Royal Jadies are also advised to yawn 15 times “as large as possible,” then close the mouth with the lips inside before lowering the chin to touch the neck and pivoting the head 20 times. .- ‘After that, they should pronounce the letters “O” and “" 17 times, as openly ss possible. They can finish up by pushing the chin forward, thrusting out the lower lip, and making “horrible, grimaces and éxpressions.”, 4 Pe pee a