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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and st1ipes 1 strict Security now inhibits concept 0 by Harry Kelly a Ashington did the Bullet that killed Robert. Kenn do also kill the idea of Amore open Freer presidency vice president Hubert  was planning to introduce his concept of an Ope presid enc in a speech scheduled for Only a few hours after Kennedy was shot. Under the circumstances the speech was not delivered. Humphrey flew Back to Washington under the strict Security of secret service agents. In the past. Sen. Eugene  often expressed his views on a More open presiden cd by telling supporters that if elec de he would tear Down the Fence around the White House. But hours after Kennedy was shot president Johnson ordered secret service Protection for Al the presidential candidates. And in the Early hours after Kennedy s death when a news Man called the Mccarthy Home for a statement a secret service agent answered the  vice president has spoken of the difficulties of campaigning under Security say ing there Are always so Many people around me. But our secret service is very very  they Are Young men in sober suits looking grim faced out of the  can be a nervous Job. Is there a fanatic with a gun among those smiling people reaching out for the candidate waving signs was the shooting of or. Mar tin Luther King or. Or Rober Kennedy a conspiracy with other assassins assigned to get some other candidate some other prominent person these May seem to be unlikely possibilities. But me charged with protecting those who carry the flame of Dein Cracy have to think about them. And yet As one of them says the idea of campaigning and Security Are in conflict. The candidate wants exposure. Perfect Security would be to put them in a room underground i . George Romney campaigned including visits to storefront Headquarters of slum militants with two Michigan state troopers As his personal bodyguard. New York gov. Nelson Rocke Feller carried along a new York state police . Mccarthy had no one. C the Kennedy Torch Washington i Pic Tydis the Only one left. Of Joseph p. Kennedy s four sons Only the youngest sen. Edward m. Ted Kennedy survives. Two have been assassinated. The third died a hero in world War ii. Able and it was Bobby who finally suggested that Ted drop his fight. The younger brother did with a sob of emotion in a dramatic floor  Robert Ted went to Harvard and then to the University of Virginia Law school where some professors considered him less Bright than his brother an unspectacular scholar. Ted had to work harder to get Good grades than his Brothers  s probably a better ath Lete than they were though. Of the four sons Ted was probably closest to the parents especially to his  was Ted who told his Mother and father of the assassination in Dallas. And it was Ted who had to Tell them of the assassination in los Angeles. Up the Tor c h so tragically knocked from the hands of his three older Brothers. Being Kennedy and the son of a Man who expects nothing less he is sure to try. Ted. 36. I a respected and  ked member of the sen ate. He was elected to the Senate in 1982 to fill the same sea this brother had Given up for the presidency. In 1964, despite a close Brush with death in plane crash he won re election for a full term by an o v e r   the Senate he has behaved As the establishment thinks a relatively n e w senator should behave quietly and diffident by. Because of this and his Dili gent work he is much More popular on Capitol Hill Hansen. Robert f. Kennedy Ever  As a team player Bobby was a Lone Wolf redheads judiciary subcommittees on the Asing and 0 1  has made the problems of the refugees of the War in Viet Nam his major concern. Although affable smiling and easy mannered in the Senate More so than either of his Brothers Ted has avoided the limelight. At the beginning he was very conscious of being the president s younger brother. Heis still the youngest Man in the 100-Mernber Senate and he re members that. Ted has a better relation ship with president Johnson than Robert did partly because of his acceptance by the sen ate s inner Circle Anil partly because he was nut after John son s Job. However he does thes Lule to Challenge Johnson. Jigs biggest and Only maim1 Iii Iak in tin Senate so h s or it out m a a i hands 1 to propel   e preside room Sham service Agel Liz a Ratchel or  pal i or s stand  r it fat. F to in frill c -. Ill. 1 secret ser i news Estoril a of i of Seal 1 nov turn mtg a Cam pall. 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