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...President’s attempts to roll back some sensible and compassionate social programs might have met with even more success. Yet Kennedy’s political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O’Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month’s midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead...
Among those who helped the former Winthrop House resident while he cracked jokes about the failure of the Bay of Pigs, thought through economic policy, and worried about unrest in the South, were former Harvard Law School professor Archibald Cox Jr. ’34, then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ’48, former history professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38, and one-time Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy...
Despite the severity of the situation at the Oxford, Miss. campus, Kennedy tried to lighten up his aides through jokes. “I haven’t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs,” Kennedy said on the tape...
...Sydney. I would start in the mid-afternoon at Taronga Zoo, tel: (61-2) 9969 2777, where koalas, kangaroos and other Australian wildlife enjoy an excellent view of the harbor and the city skyline. Then I'd walk along the foreshore through Sydney Harbour National Park to Chowder Bay for alfresco coffee and cake at Ripples Italian restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9960 3000, in a renovated naval wharf complex. Not far away is Balmoral Beach - a tranquil, tree-lined strand where I'd get my feet wet, if not have a refreshing swim, before dinner right beside the beach...
...stroll along Bourke Street in Surry Hills to Danks Street, Waterloo, visiting the precinct's many galleries. Then, in Danks Street I'd call in to the Fratelli Fresh Italian produce warehouse, tel: (61-2) 9699 3161, collect a light picnic, and head to Beare Park in Elizabeth Bay. It has a beautiful pond, the gardens always have something lovely in flower, and there are delightful harbor views. Just across the park is Elizabeth Bay House, tel: (61-2) 9356 3022, a restored 19th century mansion that often has quirky exhibitions dealing with Sydney's history. Finally, I'd head...