As a charter member of John Kennedy’s Irish Mafia, Kenneth O’Donnell has spent most of his career in the back rooms of politics. Now he plans to come into the parlor as Governor of Massachusetts.

Indeed, Manchester says that Mary Gallagher, Mrs. Kennedy’s personal secretary, watched Kenneth O’Donnell “pacing the corridor like a caged tiger, his hands clapped over his ears as though ...

The Irish got in again last night after 12 months out of office, Phillip Kenneth O'Donnell '49 of Worcester and 48 Revere Street, Boston, was elected captain of the 1948 Varsity football team in a ...