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...political year. Witcover admires Kennedy's ability to attract students and black support as well as white ethnic votes (Hungarians, Polish-Americans). In his attempt to avoid analysis, however, he leaves all the background threads hanging--unconnected to the facts of the campaign. Thus, Witcover spends 35 pages describing RFK's post-Jan. 31, 1968, re-thinking of his candidacy but he never once mentions the change in graduate school deferments or the gold crisis, or the military heavy-handedness at Khe Sanh, all of which led to a significant change in public opinion during the months of February...
Lasky lashed the Kennedys in a 1963 newsbook called JFK: The Man and the Myth. Published shortly before the assassination, it exhibited the same unblinking reliance on unfriendly quotes as RFK. The question arises: Who is Lasky, and why does he seem to spend his life attacking Kennedys in print...
...Made. Surprisingly, Lasky, 50, turns out to be an amiable, ex-Scripps-Howard correspondent, who describes himself as "a political centrist. I'm a hatchet man with a sense of humor," he laughs, though the humor is nowhere apparent in his book. In the foreword to RFK, Lasky claims to describe his subject "as he actually was," but privately he now admits: "I never really knew him. This was a tentative appraisal from one side. I don't tell the whole story. I'm trying to tell 'the opposite side.' That...
...change from a fairly interesting, noncommitted guy into some great liberal." After JFK was published, friends told Lasky that he was being investigated by a Department of Justice official, an act he blames on Robert Kennedy-and an act that may have been the genesis of RFK. "I can't prove he was personally involved," Lasky admits. "But maybe I was most influenced by the fear that he threw into my wife...
...RFK "VERY PLEASED...