[Deo volente]

No, they were tea parties of the old-fashioned kind:

http://media2.myfoxboston.com/html/galleries/09/ted-kennedy-family/1/lg/PC518.htm

(I can’t post the photo directly due to copyright restrictions.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts,_1952

A famous innovation by the Kennedys in the 1952 Senate race were a series of “tea parties” sponsored by Kennedy’s mother and sisters in the fall. Congressman Kennedy attended each of the tea parties and shook hands and charmed the voters (usually female) who were present; it is estimated that a total of 70,000 voters attended the tea parties, which was roughly his margin of victory over Lodge.

[Deo volente]

I think I posted the wrong photo. That was “Coffee with the Kennedys”.

THIS one is from a tea party:

http://media2.myfoxboston.com/html/galleries/09/ted-kennedy-family/1/lg/PC503.htm

[Right Wing Assault]

I was just intentionally playing dumb while applying the offensive “teabagger” term in the same way the dems of today are applying it to our “tea party” folks.

[montag813]

Congressman Kennedy attended each of the tea parties and shook hands and charmed the voters (usually female) who were present; it is estimated that a total of 70,000 voters attended the tea parties

Didn't menton that JFK had sex with about 30,000 of them.