No Final Victories: A Life In Politics From John F. Kennedy to Watergate

ISBN: 9780385024846

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A POLITICAL APPRENTICESttlP
M~\" l~???aImms~ M*CMOmES are political. In 1924??? when I was
seven??? my falber aitended the Democratic National Conven-
tiol~??? and 1 can remember him returning home with a sonvenir
hat .~;haped like a teapot-a jibe at ehe t/(:publican Teapot
I)???m~e seandab;. I remember rny father taking me up to shake
hands with A1 Smith dining the 1918 presidential c~mpaig~
and with Franklin D. t/oosevek four vears later. I remember
eveninclass neighborhoods in our home town of Springtieid??? Ma:??????~;a-
chusetts??? as he was gettin~ names on .nominating petitions or
urgiv.g people to rt%ister and vote. On one such evening??? as we
walked alowg together??? rny father told me something I never
forgol??? \"The votes m e there??? Lawrence??? if we can only get
them out.\"
Ills ??????rune was also Lawrence Fr~meis O Brien. He was born
in County Cork??? Ireland??? and came to this countW at the turn
of the century??? lie first settled in upstate New York where he
worked as a machine operator in a factory; later he crossed
over into Ma:;sachusetts and foxmd a job tooling rifles at the
armory in Spring~eld. There he met and married my mother???
Myra Sweeney??? a handsome??? intelligent womarJ with a marvel-
ous personality. She??? too??? was from Cormty Cork??? one of ten
children who had emigrated from Ireland to America.
By 19t4 my father had ~aved enough money to lease the