Summary of Jon Ward's Camelot's End

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#1 Ted Kennedy was the last Kennedy left. He had inherited a legend along with his name and fame, and he was almost as trapped by it as he was propelled by it. He was the president of the United States for three years, after his brother John F. Kennedy died in office.

#2 In early December, Kennedy flew to Memphis to attend the Democratic midterm convention. The weather was miserable, matching the mood of the party and the nation. Carter had spoken the evening before, and had stayed the night. He had submitted himself to questions from angry activists the next morning.

#3 Kennedy spoke at the convention on Saturday afternoon. He was not a featured speaker, but he was part of a health care panel that included two of Carter’s top advisers. Kennedy’s presence loomed over Carter’s domestic policy adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, as he pledged that the Carter administration would ask Congress to act on health insurance.

#4 In Memphis, Kennedy addressed the issue of health care reform, calling national health insurance the great unfinished business on the agenda of the Democratic Party. He stressed leadership, and the audience responded with passion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822534339

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Insights on Jon Ward's Camelots End

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Ted Kennedy was the last Kennedy left. He had inherited a legend along with his name and fame, and he was almost as trapped by it as he was propelled by it. He was the president of the United States for three years, after his brother John F. Kennedy died in office.

#2

In early December, Kennedy flew to Memphis to attend the Democratic midterm convention. The weather was miserable, matching the mood of the party and the nation. Carter had spoken the evening before, and had stayed the night. He had submitted himself to questions from angry activists the next morning.

#3

Kennedy spoke at the convention on Saturday afternoon. He was not a featured speaker, but he was part of a health care panel that included two of Carter’s top advisers. Kennedy’s presence loomed over Carter’s domestic policy adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, as he pledged that the Carter administration would ask Congress to act on health insurance.

#4

In Memphis, Kennedy addressed the issue of health care reform, calling national health insurance the great unfinished business on the agenda of the Democratic Party. He stressed leadership, and the audience responded with passion.

#5

In a speech at the Memphis convention, Kennedy teased the audience about a presidential run. He hired political operative Carl Wagner just days before the speech, and he studied the Carter campaign’s mastery of the newly important caucus system in Iowa.

#6

In early January, the shah of Iran had fled his country, chased out by Islamic radicals. Iran, which Carter had just a year ago called an oasis of stability in the region, was now controlled by religious extremists.

#7

It would be a historic and audacious thing to challenge a sitting president. Republican Ronald Reagan had done it just four years earlier, taking on President Gerald Ford. But Ford had never been popularly