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...Galbraith says, the first two would have led to sensationalism and distortion, and to maintain silence would have been to cheat history...
...Galbraith's statement appears in the lead article of a five-part discussion of the implications of Mrs. John F. Kennedy's recent suit to prevent publication of William Manchester's book. Mrs. Kennedy had commissioned the book, The Death of a President, as the authorized history of the assassination...
...Kennedys' decisions in the Manchester book controversy were those that best served history, John Kenneth Galbraith; Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, states in this week's Saturday Review...
...Galbraith contends that commissioning an authorized account, as the Kennedys did, was the best possible way to deal with the history of the assassination. He suggests three alternatives: Mrs. Kennedy could have written a history herself; she could have given access to all private recollections and papers involved, to anyone who wished it; or she could have maintained complete silence...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies were among sixteen prominent citizens named to help formulate Democratic party policy...