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...Kennedy ran in seven, piled up majorities in all of them (only two of them, Wisconsin and West Virginia, were real contests). His showing proved that his Roman Catholicism was an asset rather than a liability, helped his hardboiled campaign to persuade Democratic politicians to climb aboard his bandwagon lest they get left behind...
...gave the game away. "I shall never forget," said he, "the words of a Polish lady spoken to me last year on the square of the inner city of old Warsaw. 'Senator' she said to me, 'America is truly the hope of the world.' " But lest the Republicans claim any credit for the Polish lady's faith, he called for an "awakened and rededicated America" under a Democratic party which "will once again lift our country upon the high road of destiny...
...account of the last days of the Venetian Republic, might more properly be called FitzGibbon's Decline and Fall of the British Empire. With horrid persuasiveness, it looks forward to the moment, somewhere between 1960 and 1984, when Britain decides "to commit suicide" and becomes a Soviet satellite. Lest any reader think he is not reading about the possible, FitzGibbon provides a text from Lenin, who held that in war, it is best to wait "until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the mortal blow both possible and easy...
...guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, among others, registered the same point. Finally, Daniel called off the breakfast meeting, lest Johnson be embarrassed at the outcome...
...hands. Said bewigged Justice Slade: "No thinking person could feel other than the greatest sympathy for you. I accept that your terrible deed was done . . . solely to put your child out of its misery. But you knew you were breaking the law. I cannot pass over what you did, lest other people think they can do likewise...