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...Harvard College Fund raises a record $2,400,725. Lady Bird Johnson visits Harvard to get ideas for the LBJ Library. The CRIMSON prints its only funny editorial of the year...
...Democratic Party's share of the vote, and in individual contests where the war is the main issue. Even without the war, Democrats would have been hard pressed to maintain their 1964 level of popularity. Numerous Congressmen, and state and local officials were swept into office on the LBJ landslide. Without Barry Goldwater, many of these Democrats would automatically have been in trouble. Now they must face the fact that war, like depression, has always been a vote-loser for the party in power...
...other Sixties Liberals including, perhaps, Robert Kennedy, have profited from the success during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations of all the causes that men like Williams and Hubert Humphrey fought for in the fifties. What the Detroit newspapers railed against ten years ago, they now accept, and Cavanagh, like LBJ, knows how to use their acceptance to make further gains. At the same time, Republicans--even Michigan Republicans--have changed. George Romney managed to convince voters that he was not the same kind of politician as the reactionaries that controlled the State Senate (although he is closer to them than...
Taking brief and irreverent swipes at "The Singing Nun," LBJ, Donald Duck--a transvestite, because only drakes are really male--and Madlyn Murray--a "paranoid, nutty and aggressive, but doing good lawsuits"--be then devoted more of his time to the draft and the recent pornography cases...
Never in the history of the United Stated has a President marshalled the opinions of so many people in private discussion, or been so tolerant of behind-closed-doors dissent. However, few have ever been so sensitive to public criticism, especially that originating in the press. Relations between LBJ and all but a select few of the nation's columnists (William S. White, his campaign biographer and Max Freedman, whose words seem to parody those of the President, are the two main exceptions) are chilly at best...