Ulka Merz’s Reviews > An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s > Status Update

Dick was in favor of bobby Kennedy to run for president to win
Draw disparate elements together to best LBJ
Others thought it was political suicide to run
Eugene McCarthy decided to enter the primary
Ted Sorensen in favor of waiting until 1972
Dick thought if lbj would win in 1968 he would do everything to prevent Kennedy to run in 1972

The oath taken by every high officer of the nation, elected or appointed, is to support and defend the constitution of the United States, not an administration, a political party or a man.

The duty of loyalty
That a man who has worked for the president owes continuing loyalty to his policies
Loyalty to America

Brazilian rain forest excursion reminds me of teddy Roosevelt expedition to the Amazon

Johnson on working closely with congress like a marriage staying in close touch during the different stages of a bill

LBJ lying about Dick Goodwins assignment

Merger Evers died after listening to Kennedy speech on civil rights

Black children
The responsibility of dealing with local unrest rested with local authority not federal

Cannot find the spot where Doris mentions that children in Birmingham protesting segregation at lunch counters were mowed down by fire hoses and the government said they could not interfere as police action are state issues

For unlike today, the Sixties were still a time when a candidate’s word represented a commitment to a prescribed course of action