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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (43617)	11/21/2007 10:19:01 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541477

I'm reading Arthur Schlesinger's new book, his journals covering 1952 to 2000. I recommend them to you as a way to get a different perch on the operations of the federal government from a somewhat liberal, insider perspective. If you were politically alert in the 60s and something of a liberal. I bring it up because of your comment about reminding you of discussions of segregation. Schlesinger, who thought the world of Adlai Stevenson, discovered that Stevenson, in the middle 50s, as Eisenhower is bringing in the military to Arkansas in support of the supreme court decision, Stevenson is alarmed that it is all moving too fast. He had much more sympathy with white southerners than black southerners. I was stunned. I voted for Stevenson in 56, the first time I could vote, and would have preferred him or Humphrey to Kennedy in 60. Just goes to show. One other thing. There was a quite famous meeting Bobby Kennedy had with the James Baldwin and friends in the summer of 1963. Schlesinger tells that tale very well. I've just read the portion on Kennedy's assassination and am getting into 1964 and Johnson's presidency. God, it's sad.