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Even the politically beleaguered islands of Quemoy and Matsu began to float out of the center of U.S. debate and back to their rightful place in ambiguity along the China coast. The pollsters bustled across the U.S. like beaters on an African safari - and found themselves right where they were before the interruptions, staring into that great cliche of the 1960 campaign, the undecided vote...
Lausche, a notorious maverick, has come out unenthusiastically for Kennedy, Dorsey reports, and has issued "a statement agreeing more with Nixon than with Kennedy on Quemoy and Matsu." Dorsey says, "I don't believe he affects the people much." In Dorsey's opinion, smaller industrial towns south of Cleveland will hold the key to the election...
...correct principle involved is not, as Mr. Nixon has suggested, the defense of every inch of "freedom," but, as action in 1955 demonstrated, one of drawing a line which can reasonably be maintained and defended, as Quemoy and Matsu...
Although the positions of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy over Quemoy and Matsu have narrowed in the last few days, the issue provides an example of the dangers inherent in a presidential campaign. In their efforts to differentiate their stands, the two candidates have taken positions which can in charity only be called more extreme than is warranted...
With that Kennedy left, walked down the corridor to his makeshift office. "You were great," said jubilant Bobby Kennedy, but Kennedyites sensed that Nixon had landed what they called an "emotional" punch in the exchange over Quemoy and Matsu. Said Jack: "Will somebody please get Jackie on the phone?" Richard Nixon, heading down Nebraska Avenue toward his Wesley Heights home, stopped at a traffic light, heard a motorist shout through the window: "You really clobbered him tonight." When he got home, one of his daughters met him at the door. "Daddy," cried she, "you did great!" A more impersonal reaction...