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...Kennedy have the gall to attack the Administration's Viet Nam war policy as "an exercise in politics and improvisation" [Sept. 26] when his recent famous TV speech was exactly that...
After his recent press conference declaration that antiwar outcries would not affect his policy, the President held two private meetings with Republican congressional and party leaders. The first took place at Camp David, where, amid Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, the participants lounged beside a figure-eight swimming pool and heard the President blame many of his Administration's problems on the Democratic-controlled Congress. The second meeting was a White House breakfast. The deliberations at such sessions almost always leak out; that is often the intention. The President's main message, echoing Lyndon Johnson, was that...
...mind, however, Kennedy has obviously learned to live with the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and his political misfortunes. In recent days, he has displayed a marked resilience. He has lost 20 lbs.-leading to a Capitol Hill sick joke: "There must be an easier way to lose weight." He is clear-eyed, the puffy jowls are gone, his hair is razor-cut in the back with the sideburns shorter. His handshake is firm once more...
Although the district had not had a Democratic Congressman since 1877, recent shifts have put power in the hands of independents. Aware of this, both parties poured in major out-of-state support. The Democrats sent in Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Allard Lowenstein. The G.O.P. countered with staff men and professional advice from the national party headquarters in Washington. Senator Edward Brooke returned home to plump for Saltonstall, and Edward Kennedy made radio spots for Harrington...
...pilot school proposal, accepted by the Cambridge School Committee, warns that "the events of recent months at colleges and high schools across the country show that if we ignore student voices, we do so at some risk." The new school aims at increasing student participation in decision-making which affects their lives...