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MINNEAPOLIS MOIKINC TIIBDXt Nov. 19, 1962 9 Kennedys Concentrated Funds on Primary Sixth in a Series By FLETCHER KNEBEL Minneapolis Tribune Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. The Kennedys always have spent money on the Democratic party and President Kennedy has done his part in financing political campaigns. cords that Sen. John Kennedy found that "big-time politics was expensive." "Giving a banquet at the mayors' conference at Miami Beach," wrote Burns, "cost Kennedy over $2,000.

Every Christmas he sent out several thousand greeting cards. During the first seven months of 1956, when the Democratic convention and national campaign were in the offing, Kennedy spent $72,206 outside his regular allowance for his Washington office. Washington Living Is Expensive "Among the major items were $19,913 for his Washington house expenses, $1,697 for clubs and contributions, $18,647 for extra Washington office expenses, $2,791 for his Boston office, $11,061 for hotel, travel end other business expenses." Mr. Kennedy's spending for his own political advancement probably is over, except for whatever contributions he makes for his re-election campaign fund in 1964. But other members of the family are on the move.

There will be campaigns ahead for some office of another for brothers Robert F. and Edward perhaps even for brother-in-law Shriver, the Peace Corps director. The campaign of 1964 probably won't see the last of John Kennedy's political contributions. TUESDAY: Fringe benefits of the presidency. members of his family $35,000.

Their expenditures in time and effort carried no price tag. One aspect of this campaign figured in a House investigation six years later. John Fox, owner of the former Boston Post, switched editorial backing from Lodge to Kennedy. He said he did so without "any knowledge of Hnybody in the Kennedy family." The night after the endorsement Joseph P. Kennedy called on Fox and after the election, Kennedy (father) loaned Fox $500,000.

The Kennedy financial office said the loan was a purely commercial transaction with full collateral end interest and that Fox repaid the loan in full on time. Father A Long-Time Contributor The elder Kennedy has been contributing to Democratic campaign pots for many years. In 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt ran against Herbert Hoover, Joseph Kennedy gave $15,000 to the Roosevelt campaign fund and then loaned the Democrats another $50,000, big money in those deep depression days. plane's operation during the campaign, but Smith says, "On the occasions when the senator made use of the Caroline for campaign purposes, the committee sponsoring his candidacy was billed so much per mile for the use of the airplane." Senate More Costly Office The Kennedys put more money proportionately into the primary campaigns when Sen. Kennedy was driving for the Democratic nomination.

In addition to the airplane, Mr. Kennedy contributed $60,000 to the primary fund, father Joseph P. Kennedy $24,000 and the other brothers and sisters $90,000, according td Edward F. Woods of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who inspected the primary books shortly after Mr.

Kennedy won the nomination. He set the total primary cost at $912,500, most of it gathered in contributions from supporters of John Kennedy. In his 1952 campaign for the Senate against Henry Cabot Lodge, Kennedy committees reported campaign ex But the charge that John Kennedy "bought" the 1960 victory over Richard M. Nixon with family money is patently absurd. A presidential campaign can cost tens of millions of dollars and even a Rockefeller would be hard-pressed to finance one with his own money.

Congressional Quarterly, in a recapitulation of penses of $346,662, of which he put up $15,866 and other Kennedy's biographer, James MacGregor Burns, re spending by political committees in the 1960 general election, failed to find any contributions by members of Kennedy family. The C.Q. findings are "accurate to the best of my recollection," says Stephen E. Smith, the family financial manager and the President's brother-in-law. Smith handled finances during the 1960 campaign.

The major Kennedy family contribution to the Kennedy-Nixon campaign was the airplane, Caroline, a twin- 'Win Mfe 1 I engine transport used by Mr. Kennedy throughout the primaries and fall campaign. The Kennedys formed the Kenair Corp. to buy the plane for $385,000. The family retained the plane for use of Jacqueline Kennedy, brother-in-law Sargent Shriver and other members of the family in Washington.

In October, however, the Kennedys put the plane up for sale for $375,000, then withdrew it. President Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy had withdrawn as stockholders Knebel of the plane after the 1960 election. The Kennedys footed some of the bills for jHpown8talrs Charming Thoughtful Christmas Gifts Kennedys Take Caroline to Sunday Mass MIDDLEBURG.

Va. (PI President and Mrs. Kennedy took their daughter, Caroline, to mass with them Sunday. Caroline, who will be 5 Nov. 27, hardly fidgeted dur-i ing the 50 -minute It was the first time she is: known to have attended mass 1 with both parents.

Two years ago her father, then president-elect, took her to mass with him in Washington, D.C. Then she moved about and climbed over a pew divider. Yesterday she hardly moved, except to kneel or stand at the right' times. Secret Service agents seemed to maneuver themselves in such a way as to conceal Caroline from pho-; tographers as she entered and left the Middleburg Com- munity Center, where Roman Catholic services are held here. Agents were waiting for the arrival of the presiden-1 tial limousine, and walked in front of the Kennedys as they entered the auditorium.

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