The Administration: Back-Room Boy Up Front

For all their divided loyalties and divergent styles, Lyndon Johnson and President Kennedy's political legatees have apparently reached a working truce. Bobby Kennedy, who earlier this year was shafting the Johnson Administration for deepening the U.S. military involvement in Viet Nam, of late has had only praise for the President's policies. While most other top advisers to J.F.K. have now left the White House, one of the most valued of all has stayed on to play an even more influential role in the Johnson Administration.

He is Larry O'Brien, John Kennedy's most artful campaign manager and Capitol Hill strategist, who has...

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