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...years on the other side, you bring in people who are bright but not experienced in Government?especially in protocol, the proprieties of dealing with the Hill and other parts of Government, which can matter more than substance. They think they're bright ?that's part of the problem???and experts in politics because they worked in a campaign. Actually, they know very little, especially about the politics of dealing with politicians...
...understandably resentful that the problem of teen-age heroin addiction is suddenly getting attention because it has reached the white middle class. They have lived with it for two decades in the ghetto, and they are rightly enraged when a Narcotics Bureau official says that it was a problem???"but it was one we could live with." A 20year-old in the New York City Phoenix House program, who started on heroin in Harlem at twelve, complains: "Up there it's easier to get it than to avoid it. This is a good reason why the blacks...
...bring New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller back into the race. For the time being, Rocky was holding back, still maintaining that a genuine draft was the only thing that could return him to contention. "Sure, Johnson's out," said a Rockefeller aide, "but that doesn't change our problem???the Republican Party. They don't want Rockefeller. It's as simple as that." In an effort to remedy the problem, a group of influential Republican moderates laid plans for the formation of a National Rockefeller for President Committee. Rocky gave the committee his quiet approval, but even so, unless...
...learn how to cope with their new military problem???the heliborne mobility, the massive artillery and air support that the U.S. had brought?Hanoi devised a costly experiment, which was conducted in the la Drang Valley in November of 1965. During six weeks of bloody fighting, the North Vietnamese commander was instructed to accept battles he could not possibly win. He was ordered to keep up the fight longer than any good hit-and-run guerrilla army should. "We had to learn how the Americans fought," explained a high-ranking defector later...
Brooke's votes for civil rights proposals are as certain as anything about him. Even so, his views on the issue do not reflect self-consciousness about his race. "It's not purely a Negro problem. It's a social and economic problem???an American problem," he says. He sees racial problems as essentially a conflict between "haves and have-nots," rather than between blacks and whites. He has been stonily hostile toward the concept of black power. "That slogan has struck fear in the heart of black America as well as in the heart of white America," says Brooke...