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...that threatens it. He lived in the whole country and looked at it all. And he couldn't see a way to unite it. Maybe he wasn't the best President we might have had. But we sure as hell aren't the best people a Pres ident has ever...
...maneuver started the day before the New Hampshire vote. It occurred in the course of a twohour conversation between the Pres ident and Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen. Reviewing Kennedy's misgivings about the war, Sorensen allowed that the White House was paying too little heed to those who had rational alternatives to his present Viet Nam policy. Johnson replied that he had considered every proposal he knew of, and showed Sorensen a list of the people he had consulted. However, Johnson concluded, he would be glad to hear any new suggestions...
...list last week, along with South Dakota. This move denied Kennedy the opportunity to take on Johnson alone. McCarthy has had an organization working on his campaign since December. Johnson forces, as elsewhere, are disorganized, and last week had still not decided on a stand-in to lead the Pres ident's faction. Kennedy said he was undecided whether to enter. The out look is uncertain...
Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...
...north is the land of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack whose footprints remain as tiny wooded lakes. Wisconsinites brag that they have more lakes than Minnesota, which supposedly has ten thousand. The north is hunting and fishing country that has attracted such outdoorsmen as Pres. Eisenhower and Al Capone, and which each year draws thousands of tourists from the Chicago suburbs...