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1953-1960 Kennedy's Legislative Career
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death, started, innocence, Robert, Cabbot, Sorensen, blue, Nations, Eisenhower, Nixon, Bouvier, newspaper, Hiss, 1952, Soviet, investigation, poor, working, Massachusetts
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legislative career
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made friends with other 69 veterans of WWII elected to congress in 1946
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including young Republican legislator Richard Nixon from California
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          's career began to rocket, not Kennedy's
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headed up                            of the House about communist infiltration which led to the arrest of Alger         
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Alger Hiss (1904-1996)
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American lawyer and government official
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involved in the establishment of the United               
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accused of being a              spy in 1948
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convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950
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served three years, maintained his                    until his death
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Nixon captured open senate seat in 1950 in California
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in          Dwight Eisenhower's running mate
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while Nixon was skyrocketing to high office, Kennedy was just getting                in the House
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1952 Kennedy challenged Henry              Lodge Jr.
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1947-1953 Senator from                           
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had been elected three times
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was favored to win again in 1952
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Cabbot spent too much time working for                      and too little time for himself
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Kennedy's family very active in campaign
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women held tea parties
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             managed the campaign
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father funded it
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half million dollar loan to a Boston                    that flipped its backing from Lodge to Kennedy
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Lodge's grandfather had defeated Kennedy's grandfather
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Lodges were Protestant          bloods
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Kennedys represented the                class of Irish Catholics who deeply resented the Brahmins, the blue bloods
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defeated Lodge by 70,000 votes, even while Eisenhower carried Massachusetts
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1953-1960 Kennedy's senate years
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marked by          health
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had several major back operations in first senate term
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was often near           , priests even administered the last unction
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1953 married to Jacqueline               
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marriage attended by good friend Richard Nixon and wife
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wrote "Profiles in Courage", 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biographies
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coauthor Ted                 , Kennedy's "intellectual blood bank"
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used for foreign audiences
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interview
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number one problem in foreign policy: to win the support of all the countries who aren't committed to our side of the Cold War: Africa, Middle East and Asia
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have been held under colonial domination
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desire to be free
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we need to demonstrate our interest in them, our desire to help them lift themselves up, that they can win a better place in the world through democratic procedures rather than turning to the communists
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how we do this within and within the UN is the great problem that we have
JFK's Rise to Power
1953-1960 Kennedy's Legislative Career
JFK Takes to the National Stage
Kennedy and the Catholic Issue