Watching the New Hampshire returns in a Manhattan apartment, Robert Francis Kennedy remarked more to himself than to his companions: "I don't want to run against an incumbent President. What I want is for the Administration to show some signs of changing its policy. But there is no sign."
At the White House, after Kennedy had indicated that he would run, Lyndon Johnson lowered his cheerful fa cade. Oscillating in his rocking chair, jingling the coins in his pocket, the President squinted out over the south lawn and told a visitor in brooding tones: "Bobby Kennedy has been a candidate since the...
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