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Then there is the matter of forming a viable and articulate set of national purposes, transforming them into programs and finally legislation. Why not make that part of the campaign too? Summon key Congressmen and leading academicians, industrial technocrats and lay experts in all fields to spend hours and days in open debate on the issues and what should be done. Presumably a White House staff of sorts would take form under this regime, and methods of operation could be tested and perfected. In previous Administrations the pressure of time has led to a slapdash throwing together of programs...
...might explain what happened on that July weekend when at the same time man was first setting foot on the moon ?why and when he and Mary Jo Kopechne left the party at a cottage on the island, why and how he failed to summon help immediately instead of waiting until the next morning when his car was discovered under the Dike Bridge. A week afterward, he went on television with a carefully crafted and largely ghostwritten statement, pleading that while his conduct was indeed "indefensible," his doctors "informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion as well...
...exclaves on the Havel River, Erlengrund (one acre) and Fichtenwiese (nine acres), are the sites of some 150 summer houses or cottages belonging to West Berliners. Homeowners can reach their property for a few hours' outing only through a heavy steel-plated door in the Wall. They must summon a Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy death strip under the watchful eyes of Vopo sharpshooters and pass through yet another door in a second wall to reach their homes. A German family carrying picnic baskets through this grim gauntlet...
Office appointments stacked up until they sometimes reached an impossible 50 a day. To avoid having patients wait in vain for several hours, he often had those who needed just a routine checkup wait at home. Then he would summon them-occasionally late at night-when an opening in his schedule occurred. He knew that he had too many patients and admits now: "I wasn't strong enough to say no." Nor was he able to find a colleague to share the practice...
Homocide, particularly the killing of another human with one's own hand, is always the product of intense and usually uncontrolled emotion. Something or the accumulation of many things strikes so deeply as to summon the ultimate response...