DEMOCRATS: Bonjour, Mes Amis

After months on the road, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the most practiced performer in this season's Democratic road show. Last week in Louisiana, Senator Kennedy gave an impressive demonstration of his growing ability to do the right thing, say the right word, pump the right hand, at just the right time. With warring candidates and wary Negroes, with Congressmen and Cajuns, with segregationists and rice farmers, he showed a highly honed instinct for the correct thing.

At the Baton Rouge airport, the political elite turned out to greet the Kennedy troupe. Senate Colleague Russell Long was there, and so was...

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