NEW ROUND IN AN OLD FUED
THE feud's first showdown came in 1916 when Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly defeated John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald for the Senate by 33,000 votes. In a battle of grandsons, John Fitzgerald Kennedy restored family honor in 1952 by knocking Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. out of his Senate seat by 70,000 votes. In a 1960 rematch of sorts, Democratic Presidential Candidate Kennedy took Massachusetts by 510,000 votes against the G.O.P. ticket carrying the name of Vice-Presidential Candidate Lodge. But in a state where politicians nurse their grudges like old wine, even these family jousts of the past...
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