Yes, I know, Mr. White died in 1986, and actually said nothing explicit about the ongoing matters with Blago's appointment of Burris, any Obama/Emanuel involvement, etc. But I'm reading "The Making of the President 1960" for the first time, and one line in particular struck me.
Page 93, footnote 6 in the edition I have (looks like the first edition, in hardback; it belonged to my grandfather) relates to Ben Smith. The sentence begins "From Gloucester, Massachusetts, a former mayor, Ben Smith,..." and the footnote follows the comma.
The footnote reads "Whom President Kennedy has now caused to be appointed United States Senator from Massachusetts."
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