Democrats: When Bobby Gulped

In the continuing clash of personalities and political purposes between President Lyndon Johnson and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, there "is a meaning which may continue to agitate the Democratic Party for some years to come."

So says Theodore H. White in his new book, The Making of the President 1964 (Atheneum; $6.95). As White points out, everyone knows that Lyndon and Bobby have never had much use for each other. "The indifference of Robert F. Kennedy to Lyndon John son during his brother's Presidency had been embittering," writes White. "So, too, was...

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