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...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Harvard Historian-New Frontiersman Schlesinger's admiration for the late President is often obvious, but this is nevertheless by far the most perceptive, the most vivid, and the best-balanced assessment of the Kennedy years that has yet appeared...
With his horn-rimmed glasses and floppy bow ties, his retreating hairline and advancing waistline, the slightly built man with the professorial air hardly looked the part of the New Frontiersman. But wherever the action was during the thousand days of John F. Kennedy's Administration, there...
Died. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr., 77, longtime (1924-54) Harvard history professor and father of New Frontiersman Arthur Jr., a specialist in American life who passed up the hurly-burly of active government except for a World War II stint on the Commission on Freedom of the Press, preferring instead to remain in Cambridge, pioneering in what is now known as social history with such highly regarded studies as 1925's Political and Social History of the United States; after a brief illness; in Roxbury, Mass...
...another J.F.K.-and-I saga is forthcoming from former Frontiersman Kenneth O'Donnell, who vowed to keep silent after reading Eisenhower Speechwriter Emmet John Hughes's book about Ike. In O'Donnell's words: "You're in a man's office, and he trusts you, and then you do that-it's almost like a Peeping Tom." He was persuaded to write a book nonetheless. Meanwhile, says O'Donnell, he has turned down offers of corporation jobs paying up to $500,000 a year. Reason: he intends to run for Governor...
...Capitol Hill-though hardly to politics-O'Brien was largely responsible for passage of the few bills that J.F.K. managed to get through Congress. His success sorely dismayed Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the old maestro of Senate consensus, who had naturally expected to be No. 1 New Frontiersman on Capitol Hill. Yet, to O'Brien's amazement, on the plane back from Dallas after Kennedy's assassination, Johnson asked him to stay on-and promised him "a blank check...