Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, I had 13-think of it-13 scheduled meetings with various groups [political, ethnic and labor factions, some at odds with others]. Well, now we've got an organization going in Texas. We're going to win Texas. You know how a town looks after a cyclone has passed through? Well, that was what we looked like in California. New York? Not even Bobby Kennedy could put that together. Now New York is a standoff. We're going to win it. We've had to get all the aunts and uncles and cousins to agree...
...HUMPHREY. The Vice President's staff promises "surprises," but quite a few non-surprises seem as likely. Robert Nathan, a vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, will probably get a Cabinet job; he is now heading Humphrey's task forces studying various issues. Economist Walter Heller, onetime chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, will probably become Secretary of the Treasury. Clark Clifford may be persuaded to stay as Secretary of Defense. The post of Secretary of State could go to George Ball or McGeorge Bundy...
...class of 1928, who met with us afterwards in the bar of the Ritz in Boston, where we took him to assuage our anguish and his thirst. He was a very good ally, and I said that I would go out on a Middle Western and Eastern tour of various friends of the Harvard Library to raise the money, if he would go with...
Alevizos said that "from the library's stand point there hasn't been overly excessive pressure on the night staff." He added that "the library isn't heavily used yet." He said that he has been in Lamont at various times and has never seen the place filled, the desk over-flowing with people waiting for reserve books...
...backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, non-plussed." Of course the bus looked like it had been painted by Hieronymus Bosch, a sign in back of the bus said "Caution: Weird Load" and everyone had painted their bodies in various day-glo ways...