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...retrospect, Johnson thinks his greatest mistake was waiting too long???18 months in office?before putting more men in, for by then Viet Nam was almost lost. Another mistake, he feels, was failing to institute censorship?not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the enemy from knowing what the U.S. was going to do next. As for trying to hide the troop buildup, L.B.J.'s rationale is that he was trying to avoid inflaming hawk sentiment in the U.S. and to avoid goading Hanoi into calling on the Communist Chinese for help...
Signs of Schism. The nomination had eluded him so long???he was first considered a presidential possibility in 1952 ?that he had finally despaired of winning it. Thanks to the convulsive events of 1968, it came within his reach. Yet on the day that he finally grasped it, he sat glumly in his suite in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel while young demonstrators and angry police fought in the streets below. He tasted not victory but the acrid fumes of tear gas that wafted through an open window. What was to have been the happiest of days turned...
...Austin, Tex. Funnyman Will Rogers performed for the benefit of the Red Cross Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long??? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave...
Flocking, pushing, stepping on toes, upsetting policemen, trampling shrubbery, scores of thousands of Roman Catholics moved in a long line which surged and babbled but scarcely dwindled all week long???not to get into a football stadium or a prizefight arena, but to see and if possible touch the tombstone of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power in Holy Cross Cemetery at Maiden, Mass...
Evenings in Russia are long??? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...