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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solidly for Wallace. He, in turn, lavishes praise on them. "I don't see how the police restrain themselves as much as they do," he said in Cleveland last week. "If they could run this country for about two years," he has said at other times, "they'd straighten it out." They might even straighten out Alabama, which last year had the highest murder rate in the nation...
...guidelines "don't have enough sense to know how to get out of bed in the morning, so they have to write a guideline for us." Intellectuals are "overeducated, ivory-tower folk," or "pointy-headed professors who can't even park a bicycle straight." He says: "Any truck driver'd know right off what to do at the scene of an accident, but you take a college professor, he'd just stand around lookin' and gettin' sick...
...difficult for him to lead the country, to get the alienated into right as the well as the disaffected left back into the mainstream. The men are different, their responses are different. Humphrey might burst into tears at hearing Russia was moving, into, say Rumania. But he'd recover, and quickly confront a cold political situation. Nixon would tackle it as a cold political situation from the beginning. There is a legitimate argument as to which reaction is more appropriate in today's world, and that may be what the 1968 election is all about...
Councilman Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh admits: "A lot of people dissatisfied with the party here really don't feel that a Democratic loss this time would be a such a bad thing. They'd regard it as a cleansing operation." Humphrey, suffering from association with the old-line bosses, and Senator Clark, himself in a tough re-election fight, both suffer from this mood...
...Viet Cong have been trying hard since the beginning of the American buildup in 1965 to do precisely that. "If a ship the size of the Kalydon could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer at Nha Be, "we'd be up to our neck. Estimates are that it would take anywhere from two to six months to reopen the channel. The U.S. command simply cannot afford to have that happen, since eight to ten large supply ships chug up the channel every...