A dozen Senators or twoscore Representatives could say the same thing without making too much of a splash. But when New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy accuses President Johnson of having muffed a chance to end the war in Viet Nam, his single, rather reedy voice has the volume of the Anvil Chorus in this year of presidential maneuvering.
This week, in a new book called To Seek a Newer World, Kennedy accuses Johnson of just such a blunder. In the early months of 1967, he writes, the U.S. "cast away what may well have been the last best chance...
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