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...both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith had no trouble working for L.B.J. after the assassination???a fact that prompted some Kennedyites to scorn him as a Judas. Ironically, other liberals had branded him a "Judas rat" only a few years earlier when he switched from Stevenson to J.F.K. But, as Arthur Schlesinger points out, there would have been no government at all after Kennedy's murder...
...ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION??? Joseph Shearing?Smith & Haas ($2.75). The French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower...
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