The Boston Globe, January 31st, 2008
IN HIS endorsement of Barack Obama this week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy dismissed doubts about the Illinois senator's age and experience with a glancing reference to President Harry S. Truman's misgivings about another brash young senator who challenged party elders for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1960. The full text of Truman's remarks, made at a press conference on July 2, 1960, in his hometown of Independence, Mo., read like Bill Clinton's South Carolina talking points as Clinton tried to elevate his wife's candidacy by marginalizing Obama's credentials. "I have always l...
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