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Article: ALBANY SAVORED GLIMPSE OF CAMELOT.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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ALBANY -- When presidential candidate Sen. Edward M. Kennedy visited the Times Union on March 5, 1980, to try to convince the editorial board to back him over incumbent President Jimmy Carter, he was in pain and none too happy to be doing a time-honored political dance.
Kennedy deigned to grovel before a conference room filled with ink-stained wretches, trolling for an endorsement.
"He was very disagreeable," recalled Times Union Editor-at-Large Harry Rosenfeld. The Washington Post and Watergate alumnus, a bulldog in bow tie, was as tough a questioner of politicians as there was those days on the newspaper circuit north of the Potomac.
Kennedy ...