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...before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...
...industrial north. To finance his new career, he earned $50,000 in five months by lecturing to packed audiences throughout Britain, then the U.S. He knew at once how to delight Americans. When a reporter asked him what he thought of New York, Churchill said gravely: "Newspaper too thick, lavatory paper too thin...
...work includes a hefty measure of what his more radical adversaries within the movement damn as "establishment groups": The churches, the unions, the NAACP, the Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...
...President had begun preparing for his address as long ago as last July, when, with full confidence of victory over Barry Goldwater, he had instructed his advisers to provide him with ideas. They had come through with a vengeance. At the ranch last week Johnson showed reporters three thick, black looseleaf notebooks crammed, he said, with "thousands of pages from some 50 agencies." But he was also drawing on a document of his own, an article he wrote in 1958 for the Texas Quarterly, which has become his and his advisers' favorite statement of the Lyndon Johnson political philosophy...
...Washington, meanwhile, workmen were speedily constructing the presidential box for the Jan. 20 inaugural parade. Mindful of the Kennedy assassination, the Secret Service specified that the President will sit behind a protective setup consisting of a ¼-in-thick steel shield topped with a 1½-in.-thick slab of bullet-resistant plate glass...