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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes of hockey for the cause (his supporters later distributed thousands of 70 auto windshield scrapers showing him on skates and saying "McCarthy Cuts the Ice"). Big names rallied to him. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who as chairman of the Americans for Dem ocratic Action helped throw the group's endorsement to McCarthy, turned up. So did Poet Robert Lowell, who told listeners that the Republicans offered no alternative because "they cannot sink and they will not swim." Actors Robert Ryan and Tony Randall took to the stump, but Paul Newman's appearances had to be circumscribed...
...brink of disavowing. "We're almost afraid to ask them what their intelligence quotients are," said McCarthy, "because they open with M.A.S and an I.Q. of 150 and go on from there." On the final weekend, his headquarters had to turn away 2,500 volunteers, including a group that was ready to charter a plane from California...
...vert her while depilating. Though a sign in one McCarthy headquarters proclaimed that "Strange Politics Makes Bedfellows," housing was strictly segregated by sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough announced that "McCarthy is a mongoloid idiot," but was soon buying beer for the earnest young proselytizers on the simple strength of their arguments and jovially warning them to "drink it or wear...
...really prepared to deal with anybody so far as my candidacy is concerned. I committed myself to a group of young people and, I thought, a rather idealistic group of adults in American society; I said I would be their candidate, and I intend to run as I committed myself to run. I'll run as hard as I can in every primary and stand as firm as I can at the convention, and then, if I find that I can't win, I will say to my delegates: You're free people, go wherever you want...
...political peace. Insisting that Johnson would have to declare his decision not merely to reevaluate but also to "redirect" the commitment to Viet Nam, he suggested that the President should then appoint a commission for the purpose of proposing a new policy. Kennedy's suggested members for the group included himself and such men as Yale President Kingman Brewster, former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Generals Lauris Norstad and Matthew Ridgway...