The high and mighty of Pennsylvania's Democratic Party last week were mulling some blunt words from a visitor whose calling card is still the hottest Democratic pasteboard in the 1960 Presidential race. The visitor was Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, and he was speaking bluntly on the noisiest issue of the campaign: Catholicism in the White House.
Kennedy's words came at a Pittsburgh luncheon attended last fortnight by 35 of the state's top Democrats, headed by Governor David Lawrence, a power in the party as well as a Roman Catholic himself. Directing his remarks at Governor Lawrence (who claims that he would...
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