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...many seasoned correspondents in Saigon, the U.S. will inescapably be seen as the chief loser in the one-man presidential election race. After years of official assurances from Washington that democracy was at work in South Viet Nam, Richard Nixon recently-and accurately-declared that true democracy was "generations" away. Nor had it been brought closer by U.S. policy in recent months. From Saigon, TIME's Bureau Chief Jon Larsen cabled this assessment...
...Your comment that "Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense, which scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence," is a gross error which cannot go unnoticed...
...Minh would stay in the campaign. You know, one general told me recently that he was upset by the Thieu maneuvers. So he came down to Saigon and asked Mr. Thieu why he was doing this. And the President told the general he was afraid he would be a loser in a three-way race. That's what Thieu told his closest friend...
Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense that scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence. Did the parole examiners who prolonged his term turn him into a political prisoner? Jackson filled his long stretch-more than seven years of it in solitary confinement-with an extraordinary self-education in languages, economics, history and philosophy. He concentrated increasingly on Marxist theory and did nothing to conceal his revolutionary politics, which called for the destruction of the capitalist system. His published prison letters, Soledad Brother, incandescent and often eloquent in their hatred...
...million, a figure that will be far exceeded next year. Eugene McCarthy spent $11 million in a campaign that was centered on the primaries. Robert Kennedy entered seven primaries in an eleven-week whirlwind campaign at an estimated cost of $9 million. Richard Nixon managed to shake his loser image on the primary trail, but not before it cost his supporters between $10 million and $12 million...