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...Earlier that day she had even attacked Obama using Mondale's famous line about Gary Hart, "Where's the beef?" But now she seemed to be shedding her private dismay that she could never be a charismatic politician like Obama or Kennedy, or her husband, and embracing her inner Johnson???at least the can-do policy-wonk version of that notoriously strange President. But she would be Johnson with a twist, with passion and with a specific constituency in mind: all those women who had to juggle jobs, children, careless, selfish men, and menopause?and, all too often, divorce...
...prize left to crave: the U.S. presidency. Many of his intimates believe that his quest for that position is what led him back into Government. He realized that the chances of a liberal Democratic Party choosing as its candidate another Texan?especially one who is more conservative than Johnson???are dim indeed. For the moment, all he can do is play out the hand that Nixon has dealt him and wait to see what happens. Connally has told friends that he and Nixon have never discussed the possibility of his taking the No. 2 spot on the ticket. They believe...
Nonetheless, as the weeks wore on without results, it was Johnson???not Ho Chi Minh?who came under increasing criticism. From members of L.B.J.'s own party and foreign governments came mounting pressure for him to give in and take what Hanoi proffered, however unpalatable. Said New York's Senator Robert Kennedy while campaigning in Indiana for Johnson's job: "We need not worry about whether we will lose face by agreeing to a site we have not suggested. The important thing is to get the talks started. Each week of delay costs the lives of hundreds...
...more hopeful about '64. With Kennedy in the White House, Republican politicians were willing to think about gambling with Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater as a dramatic alternative. But now 1964 is anybody's race, and the G.O.P. may well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson???Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Those who had been shunning the race because they figured it was a lost cause anyway may now be entertaining second thoughts. The tip-off should come when the early-bird New Hampshire primary...
...NOVEMBER?Josephine Johnson???Simon & Schuster...