JFK: TIME's Best Cover Stories

1960: Candidate Kennedy
"There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive, reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior, he projects a kind of conviction and vigor even when talking of commonplace things in a commonplace way."
From: Candidate in Orbit, Nov. 07, 1960

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