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During his presidential campaign, Richard Nixon virtually ignored America's Negro population, and got only 10% of its vote. Since taking office, he has repeatedly voiced his desire to establish a better rapport with Negroes, but has been unable to persuade any leading black figure to join his government. Last week the President announced the appointment of a noted civil rights leader, James Farmer, to a top Administration post-one that will be used deliberately to assuage and assist the black community...
Johnson admits "my inability to establish better rapport with the communications media. If I had it to do over again, I would try harder. My only stipulation would be an appeal to the news media to try harder also." He regrets that he did not hold more televised news conferences but claims that he averaged more informal, on-the-record press briefings than Eisenhower or Kennedy. He makes the valid point that these offer a chance to "explore questions in greater depth than in a televised spectacular...
Much of Halberstam's work appeared in Harper's when he was covering the contemporary political scene for the magazine. His analysis of the background of Kennedy's campaign--the alienation over the war and Kennedy's rapport with minority groups--is acute. He understood what was happening and why it was happening better than many of his contemporaries on the campaign trail...
Nixon's lack of rapport with Negroes obviously bothered him. So in company with the capital's Negro mayor, Walter Washington, the President dropped into a black ghetto, shook hands with the boys at the local pool parlor, and inspected the clearing of ruins caused by the Washington riots. Then he brought out a tough new anticrime program for the capital (see following story...
...under the pseudo-heavy "sound" music of the more pretentious West Coast groups -- the Miami Pop Festival had enough talent on display to keep one's fears tiny. Country Joe and the Fish, say, who came on unprepossessing but grow in stature as they assert their calm and confident rapport with the audience all building up to that staggering moment when they launch into "Fixing to Die"--in such a way does rock and roll gell musical and spiritual elements to produce instants of screaming intensity...