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We also re-evaluate Kennedy's commitment to civil rights and the role religion played in his election. The historian Robert Dallek argues that Kennedy has been given too little credit for progress in dealing with America's oldest and greatest social divide. Nancy Gibbs' powerful story about Kennedy's...
Farewell to Falwell In "Jerry's Kids," Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs dismissed Jerry Falwell's influence and wrote him off as a ranting, Bible-toting demagogue [May 28]. Falwell's rich life was about 5% politics, with the rest spent preaching biblical truth and establishing homes for alcoholics and...
Falwell argued that "the Supreme Court was in favor of abortion but not prayer in school," as Duffy and Gibbs put it. Falwell typically prevaricated on the truth for his own purposes. The court doesn't care about school prayer as long as it is not an official activity that...
I found Nancy Gibbs' "Pain in the Gas" mildly disturbing [June 4]. How can people not care about how much it costs to fill their car's tank? What about hardworking Americans like me who live check to check and simply cannot afford to spend $55 to $75 to fill...
Gibbs' and Duffy's book, The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House, will be published in August.