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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crushed Argument. There are other Bobbys within that slim, taut, toothy exterior. If Michael Harrington discovered America's poor, Kennedy adopted them ?not only in the urban ghettos, where the votes are, but also in the shacks of grape pickers, in the hillbilly hollers, along the rutted tobacco roads. He can communicate with the disinherited as few others of his race or rank are able to do. He can maul a William Manchester, then have the author serve as honorary chairman of a Kennedy for President club. He can be morose or merry, expansive or petty, merciless or magnanimous?...
...White House, Kennedy insisted that he had no 1968 ambitions; that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from within and from without. To run and lose would be to risk his entire political career. To remain on the sidelines would be to violate his own principles and his pugnacious spirit?and perhaps throw away his future as events passed him by. Already the liberals whom he had so assiduously cultivated...
...crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...
...Communist attempts at "spectaculars" over the coming months, to accompany the peace talks in Paris. They believe that next on the target list is the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, where the Communists nearly cut Viet Nam in half just before the U.S. buildup in 1965. Within a month, the U.S. also expects another division-size thrust across the Demilitarized Zone, aimed at the Camp Carroll artillery base and perhaps sliding off toward Khe Sanh again. The allies anticipate more trouble for the Marine base at Danang, and within three months perhaps even another attempt on Saigon...
...Balaguer is moving forcefully-and with little coordinated political opposition to deter him. General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the ultraright, remains in involuntary exile in Miami. Leftist Juan Bosch continues in voluntary exile in Spain. Meantime, their political movements within the country have splintered and all but disintegrated. Pleas by Wessin, Bosch and other opposition leaders for a heavy abstention on voting day were largely unheeded by the electorate...