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...moves in Afghanistan, Connally told New Hampshire voters at the Republican debate, "I think we should use whatever influence we have to turn the world against the Russians. We have no choice but to make a very, very substantial increase in military appropriations for this nation." Connally, who was JFK's Secretary of the Navy, adds. But Connally's militarism scares as many people as it pleases...
Current plans call for a campus-wide canvassing effort, perhaps a teach-in, and participation in today's protest at Boston's JFK Federal Building...
...seems to me that the biggest change that occurred in the 1970s was the massive, widespread public interest in the arts fostered by two endowments--the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities--which provided tax money for individual artists and institutions. JFK started impetus for arts and galleries which was given birth under LBJ and now has been functioning for about ten years. The amount of money allotted by Congress has grown dramatically and increasingly every congressman from every district, no matter how small, wants to get involved. At one time the arts were...
WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...
Asked why he had deserted the Kennedy camp, Sinatra emphasized he was a John F. Kennedy '40 supporter. "I think JFK had the presence, knowledge and aptitude to make a good president. I don't think Ted has that...