Creativity, single-minded ambition buoyed Kerry through tough times
August 17, 2003 - Des Moines Register - By THOMAS BEAUMONT
The characteristic that sustained Kerry most in the Mekong delta - a creative and single-minded ambition that has sometimes been interpreted as a cool personal detachment - served him as an antiwar leader, prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through divorce, political defeat and cancer.
It accompanies him now as he campaigns for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
"This guy, elegant and fancy as he may seem and as he may be, he can also take a punch," said former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, Kerry's 1996 Republican opponent.
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August 17, 2003 - Des Moines Register - By THOMAS BEAUMONT
The characteristic that sustained Kerry most in the Mekong delta - a creative and single-minded ambition that has sometimes been interpreted as a cool personal detachment - served him as an antiwar leader, prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through divorce, political defeat and cancer.
It accompanies him now as he campaigns for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
"This guy, elegant and fancy as he may seem and as he may be, he can also take a punch," said former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, Kerry's 1996 Republican opponent.
Read more...
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