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...officials seemed to be going out of their way to hammer home the idea, that was only because of the current of apprehension that rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough...
Among these are such elder statesmen as Dean Acheson, 70, to whose acerbic tongue Kennedy liked to listen -but whose advice he did not often accept. Then there are Benjamin Cohen, 69, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James H. Rowe, 54, now a Washington law partner of Corcoran's and a longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman...
Monstrous Act. One by one the statesmen joined the chorus of commiseration. As Big Ben tolled every minute for one hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...
Almost by reflex, people rushed to disclaim even remote complicity in the murder. "Thank God it wasn't a Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...General has his own views on issues of the Cold War and questions of allegiance. Western statesmen find de Gaulle enigmatic because yearly he becomes more unlike the French officials with whom they have dealt in the past. The new line is epitomized by de Gaulle's insistance on a nuclear force of his own. To the de Gaullist, the six Mirage bombers that France has managed to produce represent not the world's smallest nuclear armory, but France's credentials as a power. To the General's mind, NATO is a vestige of the time when only strong American...