By Jonathan Darman

Library book

This book is going to be good. Its the 1000 days from the Kennedy assassination to the 1966 midterm elections. In that time the cou try had seemingly abandoned The Democrats, Johnson and his Gdeat Society. The mid terms are a disaster for the Democrats as the republicans begin to appreciate and harness the backlash. This backlash politics would see many new republican governors elected as well, includinv the other star of this book Ronald Reagan.

Pg. 7 The autbor says bere that the news networks had full run of the TV the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. This was new to them and they tried hard to fill the time. The eventually had to just keep playing the same footage repeating the same facts over and over. Hence the CNN model was borne.

Pg. 13 He earner the derisive term "Landslide Lyndon" by beating Coke Stevenson bh 87 votes for the 1948 Senate race. Of course later, he has a legitimate landslide against Goldwater in 64.

Pg. 108 The backlash made alot democrats into republicans yes but it was the move to the suburbs that was the political whirlwind. The more people vot ojt of the city, the more attitudez changed about what was needed to fix them.

Pg. 116 And even though Johnson ' s warns him in a memo of the posible revolt of white middle class ("see to the men with the lunch pails") Johnson ignore him and speeds out furfher to the extreme. Those with lunch pails would not forget their abandonment. This is the very people, like my own parents, who would make up the force of fhe backlash.

Johnson promised Utopia and yet nite after night on the news our Utopian cities would burn. My parents watched this in alarm. Hippies and rioters and people protesting everywhere. I can just hear them thinking oh no this will not do.

Eh was ok I guess. Slipped at the end a little.

Books:

Robert Caro The Four book "Years of Lyndon Johnson" series

Mchael Harrington The Other America

Joseph A. McCartin