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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though she became increasingly sophisticated politically, some of her friends thought that Mary Jo, at 28, was somewhat naive in social relationships. She was engagingly wholesome, did not smoke and rarely drank. Whenever she traveled, she telephoned her parents to tell them where she was. Says former R.F.K. Aide Wendell Pigman, "She was the kind of girl who almost scowled at hearing a dirty word...
After Robert Kennedy's death, Mary Jo, like other former staffers, worked for a time helping Ethel with correspondence. Then she joined the Southern Political Education and Action Committee, registering Negro voters in Florida. When she was hired last September by Matt Reese Associates, which runs campaigns for Democrats across the country, she was proud to have graduated to the status of political organizer and all-round campaign aide...
Accordingly, Phillips would work toward a Republican majority* by embracing disgruntled white former Democrats. He sees voting strength in the suburbanites who flee the cities when the blacks move in. He would plow the Midwestern blue-collar enclaves, where white lower-middle-class voters fear economic competition from ambitious blacks. Special emphasis would be given to what he calls the "sun belt"-prospering areas such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and California-where middle-class whites cherish their freshly earned fortunes...
...little underemployed in academe and is eager to get back into politics. Humphrey heard the political news while stopping at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on his way back from his visit to Russia. McCarthy's decision not to run, said Hubert, "opens many possibilities." No one doubts that the former Vice President will have an easy time returning to the Senate from Minnesota...
...meaning most of the rest of the world-its report could find no justification for large information missions or for detailed political reporting other than "an occasional forward-looking assessment of a general 'whither Barataria' nature." Should the committee's recommendations be accepted, most of the former colonies that imperial viceroys once bestrode will become threadbare outposts of salesmanship diplomacy...