In the desperate hours of Jack Kennedy's battle with Estes Kefauver for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956, Kennedy's good friend and fellow Roman Catholic, John Bailey, Connecticut Democratic state chairman, circulated a memorandum among top Democrats at the Chicago convention. Wrote Bailey: "There is, or can be, a Catholic vote," and the way to make the most of it, he insisted, was to put Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy on the ticket.* Kennedy narrowly lost the vice-presidential nomination, but set to work within weeks to build toward the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination.
Last week Jack Kennedy proved beyond doubt in the Wisconsin...
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