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...behind the scenes for months as rumors buzzed in Washington and New York about the book's incendiary contents, and about the problems between the Kennedys and the author and publisher. But the book has done far more than merely upset the Kennedys. It has set many New Frontiersmen against one another, caused the author to become ill and brought turmoil to the publishing world, leaving half a dozen publishers in Europe and the U.S. holding a manuscript that they are not sure they will be able to print. Its influence has also reached into the White House, where...
...after Manchester has finished the manuscript and it was being prepared for publication, Senator Kennedy sent him a telegram stating that "members of the Kennedy family will place no obstacle in the way of publication of his book." And at about the same time, a panel of former New Frontiersmen read the manuscript, and suggested changes and deletions which were accepted by Manchester...
...Republican document was, if anything, mild compared with separate attacks on Administration war policy mounted by two New Frontiersmen who stayed on a while under L.B.J. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, former White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. scored Johnson for "piling on all forms of power without regard to the nature of the threat." Crueler, and more ironic, was the attack by former Speech Writer Richard N. Goodwin. Addressing the Americans for Democratic Action in Washington, Goodwin assailed the President for engaging in "deliberate lies and distortion" in his war pronouncements-some of which, during Goodwin...
...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Other New Frontiersmen stood closer to the President, but none were better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to describe the moods and assess the deeds of the Kennedy Administration, and none have done so more successfully...
...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Other New Frontiersmen stood closer to the President, but none has been better equipped-or more successful-than Harvard Historian Schlesinger in describing the moods and assessing the deeds of the Kennedy Administration...