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Flock of Birds. In the span of the ensuing decade of strategic missilery, the U.S. has accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history. It has produced and deployed a versatile flock of big birds: the pioneering Atlas, the more powerful two-stage Titan, the stopgap IRBMs Thor and Jupiter, and those truly pushbutton solid-fueled mainstays of the nuclear arsenal, the mass-produced Minuteman and the elusive, submarine-borne Polaris...
...John Kennedy, Johnson has managed to gain the loyalty of the old Kennedy Cabinet, the trust of his top Administration aides and-something Kennedy never really had-the confidence of key men in Congress. Already Johnson's persuasive powers have brought legislative results: an earlier tax cut, a stopgap farm bill, two education bills, a reduced budget. And almost certainly a civil rights bill will be passed this year...
...This is no stopgap election in 1964," he cried. "This is not one just for record books. This is one for the history books. We stand now at the latter end of the second century of the American experience, the American Revolution...
...Stopgap Election." Goldwater shrugged off Rocky's challenge. "If he wants to debate weaknesses in the Kennedy Administration, sure, but if he wants to talk about the Republican Party and its policies, no." Then he launched into his best campaign speech to date...
Most of the Congress-passed economic actions taken so far by the Kennedy Administration have admittedly been of the stopgap variety-a higher minimum wage, aid to distressed areas, extension of unemployment benefits, expanded public works, etc. They probably have not hurt the basic economy, but neither have they helped it much. Yet since Kennedy would certainly be blamed for recession, he can just as certainly claim credit for resurgence. And the way the U.S. economy is doing all by itself may make John Kennedy look very good...