THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan

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In the midst of the crucial West Virginia primary last spring, Jack Kennedy sent a crisis message to his kid brother, Ted, 28, who was busily running interference in the coal mines of Beckley. In his daily talkathon of 20 or more speeches, Jack's vocal cords had given out, and he badly needed a substitute. Teddy hurried to his brother's side and enthusiastically read Jack's speech to an audience of miners in Ravenswood. As Ted Kennedy recalls it, "I was saying to the audience, 'Do you want a man who will...

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