Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALLEN GLASSER Brooklyn...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
ROBERT L. SANDERS Brooklyn...
Plunging zealously into Bobby's bailiwick, the President campaigned with Kennedy at his side, even heralded him as "one of the greatest Senators in all New York history." But it was Lyndon's show all the way. In Democrat-heavy Brooklyn, L.B.J. lunged gleefully into the throngs that lined the motorcade route. On Staten Island, he bellowed at 3,000 partisans that Democratic programs-Medicare, antipoverty, education-had been enacted over the opposition of fearful Republicans. "Afraid, afraid, afraid!" chanted Johnson. "Republicans are afraid of their own shadows and afraid of the shadow of progress"-a taunt that...
That night, after a brief appearance at a Columbus Day parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Johnson made an eloquent plea for interracial understanding at a Brooklyn gathering of Italian-American businessmen. Reminding his audience that Italian immigrants had once experienced "the raw pain of discrimination" that is felt by Negroes today, L.B.J. added: "I ask those of you who have crossed the river to extend to them a helping hand...