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...Judas Rat." The odd thing is that, except for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, Galbraith has few complaints about Lyndon Johnson. "He's put all the right things on the plate in his domestic program, and apart from Viet Nam, he's been imaginative and flexible in his foreign policy," he says. Until the war, the two men, both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith...
...Galbraith unabashedly enjoys being close to the center of power. As he explains it, with a twinkle in his eye: "My father thought that we were obliged because of our enormous size to alter the world to our specifications...
...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...Galbraiths were not as joyless as most of their neighbors, whom Galbraith limns in the bittersweet memoir, The Scotch, but the children were still imbued with their neighbors' stern Calvinist ways. "Sexual intercourse," he wrote, "was, under all circumstances, a sin. Marriage was not a mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world...
...Harvard in 1936 that Galbraith first read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and became an immediate convert. It was there that he met a clutch of Kennedys: Joe Jr., then a sophomore; young Jack, who was "gayer, more easygoing, less politically inclined"; and Joe Sr., whom he approvingly describes as a "real operator." And it was there that he met his future wife, Catherine ("Kitty") Atwater, a petite (5 ft. 4 in.), pretty Smith valedictorian who was studying comparative literature at Radcliffe. "I looked up and up," notes Kitty of their first encounter, "wondering...