Ten Years After
November, 1973
Ten years after the Kennedy excitement, despite men's regret for their own younger days, it should be possible to reckon that excitement's cost. Death hallows, and should; it is the one sanctity we all must share. He died young, with things presumably undone--but what? Civil rights? Surely he would have tried; but he was up against an implacable South, which only Lyndon could cajole.Then there is the claim that he would have undone what he did--that is, reverse the emphasis on counterinsurgency...
