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Barry Goldwater, who spent three days campaigning in New Hampshire last week, complained that Nelson Rockefeller, immediately prior to President Kennedy's assassination and the 30-day political moratorium that followed, had issued misleading statements about Goldwater's views on such subjects as the income tax and the United Nations. "It hurt me because I couldn't do anything to set the record straight on these issues during the moratorium," said Goldwater. Moreover, he insisted that Rocky's own views were downright Democratic. "I've been surprised," he said, "at the number of President Johnson...
When the self-declared 30-day Republican moratorium on presidential politicking ended last week, G.O.P. contenders could publicly start working again. They had, of course, already done a lot in private...
...crony Galvao just an interlude before worse comes? The U.S. hopes not. Of Brazil's $3.8 billion foreign debt, $1.6 billion falls due between now and 1965, with the U.S. Government and private creditors holding the bulk of it. Brizola has been crying for an outright moratorium on repayment. But President Johnson wrote Goulart a personal letter offering to help Brazil reschedule its debt payments. "The U.S. Government," said Johnson, "stands ready to participate in negotiations for this purpose." Still, the Brazilians gave little sign that they had much present intention of putting their house in order...
...newspapers, magazines, radio and TV weren't expected to observe the month-long moratorium on politicking, since they analyze and sift the political winds the year round. If the U.S. press seemed to be treading lightly on the subject of politics after President Kennedy's death, that was only because most politicians weren't giving them much to report-except Lyndon Johnson, who is already a past master at combining the nation's interests and his party's fortunes...
Thus, when the moratorium ended last week, it was hardly surprising that the press leaped enthusiastically back into the business of keeping the current political score. With undisguised impatience, the New York Daily News exhorted Republicans "to make up for lost time" and also suggested a first move: "An all-out attack on Chief Justice Earl Warren's commission to investigate the Kennedy murder, plus a drive to persuade Congress to give Warren & Co. the heave." So that none of its readers would miss the point, the News detailed the rationale behind its strategy: "In view of the Earl...