Democrats: One of the Family

At Washington cocktail parties, wavy-haired Steve Smith breaks them up with impersonations of Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He is about the most graceful dancer of all the New Frontiersmen. On the golf course, he shoots in the low 80s. At 35, he has the youthful good looks of one of those mayor-for-a-day teenagers. He is also John Kennedy's brother-in-law, and a pretty tough politician in his own right.

Presently, Smith is undertaking an important assignment from his White House inlaw. His job, preparatory to Kennedy's 1964 campaign for reelection, is to...

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