After decades of being eclipsed by Kennedy the philanderer and Kennedy the liberal icon, Kennedy the commander in chief may attract new attention.

His colleagues viewed him as not only a brilliant scholar but a "liberal icon."

Will became opinion journalism's enfant terrible , slashing the dearest liberal icons and pushing a hard-right foreign policy.

Mr. Pataki also distinguished himself from former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, the liberal icon whom he defeated in 1994.

Though he's supposed to be a liberal icon, Beatty lacks the crystallizing vision of a Reagan.

Mr. Kennedy, a liberal icon who has won six times with at least 55 percent of the vote, was an uncomfortable campaigner.

Yarborough, a liberal icon, was challenged by the more moderate Bentsen in the Democratic primary.

Stevens is an unlikely liberal icon.

As a liberal icon, he could provide cover for other Democrats to grab it.

46 How, then, did the moderate young Gephardt transform himself into a liberal icon?