BOBBY MAKES PRESIDENTIAL RACE LOOK EASY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400330019-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS & 033ERVER
L. 128,829
S. 141.373
MAY 15 1966
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By ROY PART ER JR.
News and Observer Bureau
WASHINGTON - Robert F.
Kennedy makes running for
the presidency look duck soup
easy.
in the process he is accom-
plishing something infinitely
}.. harder, lie is strengthening
Senate as an originator of
ideas and advocate of policies.
Hardly a day passes that
some member of Congress, or
a White House staffer, doesn't
read the morning paper and
ask himself: "Why didn't I
think of that?"
More likely than not, he will
be talking about something
that, Kennedy, the junior sen-
ator from New York, has clone.
Two more examples popped
up this week.
The week opened with an an-
nouncement that an obscure
Senate subcommittee headed
by you-know-who would con-
duct public hearings on the use
of hallucinogenic drugs.
Monday, the shy-looking sen-
ator went on the Senate floor
with a speech large enough to
choke the most hardened fili-
buster warhorse.
It was 65 pages long, and
such a mouthful that Kennedy
delivered it in two parts on
succeeding days.
In it, he gave an expert look
at conditions in Latin America
jwah as Pre S"'
ace.,
But Robert Kennedy's inch- drawing rooms and offices.
ROBERT KENNEDY
thick speech beat everyone to. Further, Kennedy has nur-
the public punch. It will un- tured new ideas on his own,
doubtedly form the axis gathered facts. and proposals
around which all future pub- on once-uns?,>>akable issues,
lie discussion wheels. and been willing to speak out
The list is growing endless on them.
ly, of course. Depending on The Senate is no longer a.
their point of view, almost . club. A tide of new blood has
everyone here believes Robert swept in to crack the grip of
Kennedy is darkly. plotting to oldtimers.
grab the Democratic presi- In Robert Kennedy, whose
dential nomination by 1972, or eyes are always said to be on
is stumbling toward it with all the mansion at the other end.
the aplomb of a lucky Irish- , of Pennsylvania Avenue, the
man. Senate has found the alchem-
Yet, ?,
Kennedy hasn't really' ist to bring this ferment for
added anything to the encyclo a new role to boil.
- pedia of presidential politics. " The process had been build-
He' has, however, sped up ing through such men as
the wheels of the U. S. Senate. Muskies whose pioneer work
John F. Kennedy used the I makes him the real father of
Senate as a base of operate
tions for the presidency. He the growing anti-pollution at-1
concentrated on politics-Ili n- tack of the government.
ing up delegates, showing The Fulbrights, Church
McGoverns
and Morses w
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,
ere
mse
to the banquets.
posal for new attention to the Some cynics say Robert no longer willing to accept
d
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ng the same foreign policy or intelligence
Most observers here believe thing. They can argue, with
llnched the
flint the United States must some login That all of activities. TJ er`",
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For the real Sen- grand.
on helping the-Latins cope with ate foreign policy but am
expert is bamah was really the government's
tatiol s revolution
is bubbl ne from ..FUllbrieht etthey say. Sn.liEd healt, med}icareovanidmanti. I
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o Grande W sierra de
Fuego. The State Depart-
ment's Latin American forco
Yet it has remained for
to man on -,f 11,,
p er
po u on, 1 Robert Kennedy to dramatize r
not Mr. Kennedy. Abraham the role of the Senate opera- i
Ribleoff started ;.e auto
ti
the questing
-,
and ended with a detailed pro- is being revamped and re- safety drive.
???"?? ???"? ?. S . ~--~-"- staffed for such an effort. Jack But even these exerts will to search around for new,i
give
-, -_-- - _~~ Hood V P ~jdeas and then suggest them
Hood Vaughan, director of the Kennedy full credit for giving policy., '
Peace Carps, is arguing in the their views maximum public -w?-~
exposure. They even welcome
highest circles of the Johnson it The prestige and talisman-1k
administration for a massive' like quality of his name
new effort. guarantees news column I
space for his speeches and
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