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Perhaps the best book on John Kennedy is one written before he died. It is not James MacGregor Burns's John Kennedy: A Political Profile--a distinguished campaign biography, but still essentially a campaign biography, but--a book not even totally concerned with Kennedy, Theodore H. White's The Making of the President...
...than a conservative. On the other hand, many of the G.O.P. survivors are moderates who remained aloof from Goldwater and will vote with the Johnson Administration a good part of the time. They include such potentials toward higher office as Manhattan's John Lindsay, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte and F. Bradford Morse...
...latest Minnesota poll, published by the Minneapolis Tribune, shows Lyndon Johnson leading Barry Goldwater by an amazing 74% to 22% in the state. MacGregor thus suffers from identification on the ticket with Goldwater. At the same time, a diehard segment of Goldwaterites in his district threatens to boycott MacGregor because he was a strong supporter of Bill Scranton at San Francisco...
Caught in this crossfire, MacGregor tries to explain his position. "I've been a lifelong unreconstructed Republican, and I support all Republicans from President down to county commissioner," he says. "I do not agree with every position Goldwater has taken. But I respect his courage and his honesty. It would be the most blatant hypocrisy for Republicans who supported other candidates to pretend now that Senator Goldwater was their first choice-but let's remind ourselves that Lyndon Johnson wasn't our choice...
That sounds reasonable enough, and MacGregor is still favored to win reelection, but there is still a big "but." One of MacGregor's political foes, State D.F.L. Chairman George Farr, expresses it well. "MacGregor is a good, articulate man, an exceptional campaigner," says Farr. "But the question is: How deep does Goldwater...