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

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

Alliance of progress for the Americas
Freedom and economic progress

2:00am speech at university of Michigan starting thd ball rolling about thd peace corp

I enjoyed reading about the different campaign slogans
Vote yourself a farm, Lincoln
Keep cool with Coolage
Stand Zpat with McKinley
Square Deal
New deal
Return to normalcy with Harding
Fair deal
New American
Get on a Raft with Taft
The new frontier