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Throughout the day, President Johnson tried to project the image of a man of the people. As he loosened up and smiled more frequently and more broadly, he would use a thrust of his fist and a firm look to attract applause at particular points in his speeches...
...suspect," said Sayre, "that thousands, even millions, of our countrymen this summer, viewing the extravaganzas that were produced at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, felt something like the Israelites must have felt when finally they were thrust into exile . . . This summer we beheld a pair of gatherings at the summit of political power, each of which was completely dominated by a single man-the one, a man of dangerous ignorance and devastating uncertainty; the other, a man whose public house is splendid in its every appearance, but whose private lack of ethic...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame...
...main thrust of Barry's speech, however, was to link Lyndon Johnson's Administration with the issues of law, order and morality. Alluding to Negro rioting, he drew wild applause by declaring: "I would not as President support or incite any American to seek redress of his grievances through lawlessness, violence, and hurt to his fellow men." There is, said Goldwater, "a feeling in America today which may be as meaningful in the long run as any other factor" in this election year. This mood was a reaction to "the doctrine of the fast buck and the code...
...vote." That seemed clear enough, even though it meant that a considerable amount of confusion would follow during the next few years as the states cranked up the machinery of compliance. The big trouble is that many state legislatures do not want to reapportion themselves, since the general thrust of such a move would shift increased legislative power from rural constituencies to urban centers...