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...President had not simply fired Bowles instead of finding him a new job as White House representative in Latin American, African and Asian affairs. "Why still keep him around to mess things up?" demanded the New York Daily News, which had repeatedly hollered for Bowles's hide. "JFK would do far better by simply giving the grand and final boot to Administration misfits, beginning with Bowles." Observed the Charlotte, N.C., Observer: "The fellow with the lopsided grin is no longer welcome at the President's table, but he may continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press...
National events also impinged upon 1961 by removing some of the College's leading professors. Perhaps the 62 per cent of 1961 who voted for JFK '40 in a CRIMSON poll regretted their action when Bell, Bundy, Cox, Chayes, Galbraith, Reischauer, Schlesinger, et al departed for Washington. Among most, however, the reaction was merely a shrug of the shoulders--after all, most seniors need not worry about particular professors next year...
...This is not the first time that a small band of freedom fighters has engaged the armor of totalitarianism."--JFK...
...made it repeatedly clear that the armed forces of this country would not intervene in any way."--JFK...
...intend to be lectured on intervention by those whose character was stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest."--JFK...