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...discussing the Spock-Coffin indictment in your article about conspiracy you quoted me as saying that the Government "would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement, and that may be a realistic portrayal of the situation." You omitted the word "not," thereby altering significantly the thrust of my statement. What I said was ". . . and that may not be a realistic portrayal of the situation...
...philosophy, no major policy shifts, in his fifth State of the Union speech. Confronted by a Congress that is more in the mood for retrenchment than revolution, he concluded that the most prudent possible strategy would be to avoid asking for any expensive new programs but to maintain the thrust of the old ones. "We've got to keep the momentum," he told aides beforehand...
...conceived by some of Johnson's ranking advisers in the Administration and the party, his strategy will encompass five major factors. They are to: 1) freshen the face and sharpen the thrust of Great Society proposals; 2) employ Administration officials, with the exception of the Secretaries of State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis...
...Needed Thrust. Nonetheless, the primary has for decades carried psychological significance as a political Ides of March from which candidates, both an nounced and unannounced, can emerge carrying the knife triumphantly in their hands or painfully in their ribs. This year the hoopla will be all the greater because both parties will participate in the winter sport-a condition assured last week when Minnesota Democrat Eugene McCarthy announced that he would add New Hampshire to the five other states in which he will give the party a pacific alternative to Lyndon Johnson's renomination...
Senator McCarthy bared his ribs with reluctance; he had been planning to go to Viet Nam instead. But his slow-starting challenge* to Johnson needed the thrust of a New Hampshire confrontation, hazardous though it is. Governor John King and Senator Thomas McIntyre are heading a write-in campaign for Johnson. Moreover, a write-in effort for Robert Kennedy could fragment the anti-L.B.J. vote that McCarthy hopes to capture. In another show of pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause...