<p>WASHINGTON -- Long before the Bush "restoration" and the hope in some places for another Clinton administration, the great unrequited yearning in American politics was to replicate the Kennedy presidency. Through much of the late '60s and '70s, the desire burned so brightly that some authors, led by Garry Wills, believed that all American politics was "imprisoned" by its search for a JFK-type charismatic maverick. That quest led to a generation of blow-dried, square-jawed candidates being elected to the Senate, but no Kennedyesque presidents, and no Kennedy family members even close to the White House.</p>