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...April '67, two days after she was awarded the White House fellowship, an article co-authored by Miss Kearns appeared in the New Republic entitled "How to Remove LBJ in 1968." The article was written with Sanford Levenson. Both authors were Dunster House tutors at the time...
...Dump LBJ...
...Baldy' goes forth with his fine mind to FIND GOD! And believe me, he took along a lunch!" Backgrounds add depth to situations-"Whiteman," the stereotypical businessman, walks down a street that has a traffic sign reading "Keep a tight asshole"; a frontier sheriff, who looks amazingly like LBJ, carries a bomb labelled "H-Bomb" and "Approved by Good Housekeeping...
Nixon was bitter about Kennedy's emotional speeches against the war; he called them "fakery," and once he had dropped Kennedy's name into the conversation he backtracked to praise McCarthy some more. Nixon's advisors had by this time concluded that Kennedy would take the nomination from LBJ, and without any adversaries closer at hand, Nixon was already starting out after Bobby. "I had a great deal of respect for John Kennedy," Nixon said, "but Bobby's not half the man his brother...
...Jacob Javits, looking fat and enormously confident, pointed out sourly that the speech was a strongly partisan one, an effort to rally the Democratic troops behind the Johnson programs and even behind Johnson himself. Apparently annoyed by LBJ's attempt to steal Nixon's already-feeble thunder, Javits went on to explain that the Johnson programs were really outdated anyhow, just warmed-over New Deal policies, and so on. There aren't very many poor people in the country any more, fewer than ever before, said Javits, and so he expected to see the incoming Administration striking...