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Kilson implies that those Blacks who gained teaching and administrative positions did so because there was no "competition from white scholars." Every department at the University is open only to a select group. Would he have himself head of Far Eastern Studies? Kilson is denying that those teaching in the department are qualified to teach, at the same time implying that Harvard lowered its standards for the creation of the department. Many of the courses listed in the catalogue are not given during the year precisely because qualified instructors cannot be found. I suggest that Kilson do some actual research...
...impression of Muskie's popularity had never really been tested in voting booths nationwide. Muskie had looked cool and impressive as Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, and he exuded much more of a presidential aura than did his G.O.P. counterpart, Spiro Agnew. Yet few voters select a President primarily by looking at the vice presidential candidates, and Muskie's appeal was not really an issue in that election. Muskie was now recognized by most Democratic voters all right, but how did they really feel about him? No one could be sure...
...Muskie's overconfident staff had also erred badly in ignoring grass-roots organizational work. In a primary, voters have to be coaxed to go to the polls and persuaded to select a particular name out of a crowded field. In New Hampshire, the Muskie camp had to send out-of-state organizers in at the last minute to get out a favorable vote...
...once you have closed your eyes and pointed a blind finger to select a "valid" conclusion, what, by God, are you going to do with...
...with the best of intentions. After the disastrous 1968 Chicago convention, which took place in the streets as much as in the amphitheater, the Democrats decided that more people should be drawn into the nominating process. State party organizations were given a choice: either take the caucuses that select convention 'delegates out of the smoke-filled back rooms and open them to the rank and file party members, or hold a primary...