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THE Defense Department that Robert McNamara took over in 1961 was already inching, however painfully, toward internal unity. The new Secretary substituted revolution for evolution to create an entirely new order and installed it so firmly that its main lines will most likely prove irreversible.
Granted such caveats, the elections nonetheless mark a new point of departure in American politics. They answer at least in part the growing demands of moderate Negro leaders like the Urban League's Whitney Young to "give us some victories" to offset the revolutionary preachings of black extremists. Even...
Mistake-on-the-Lake. His record suggests a bizarre combination of New Dealish liberalism and honest-cop abrasiveness. While Richard Hatcher says his personal hero is John Kennedy, Carl Stokes mentions crusty old Harold Ickes, Interior Secretary under F.D.R. One of Stokes's favorite books is Who Governs? by...
The Quality of Russian Life It has become a Western cliche to say that the Russians are better off today than ever before. Yet, despite its industrial muscle, Russia generally lags behind not only the Western European countries but also behind most of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe in...
The 1964 presidential election was a dividing point in the evolution of post-war radicalism. Radicals still trusted the traditional electoral process. Martin Luther King called off the marches during the campaign. Radicals worked for Johnson. After the election there was a lessening of desire to work through the conventional...