"Boy, that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism and...
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