The Press: What Are the Magazines Saying, Dear?

The First Family can hardly guess these days what magazine will make painful reading on a quiet Saturday night. Old friends are faltering; old dependables are going into reverse.

> In Esquire, Playwright Gore Vidal, a dilettante politician, concedes re-election in 1964 to President Kennedy, then hands 1968 to Brother Bobby (over Nelson Rockefeller). With that out of the way, Vidal, whose stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, is also Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, lets Bobby have it. "There are flaws in Bobby's person hard to disguise," he writes, with no intent to disguise them. "For one...

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