"Men, women and children across the country react as emotion dictated. […] The scene that remains longest in this writer's mind, […] [are] the people along the road. There had been no [official] announcement of the route the President might take. Yet all along the way, on every [channel], sitting in [front of their screens], were the youngsters, teen-agers and adolescents, in clusters [on 4 and 8]– waiting for him to [declas]. […] It is mostly their silent [proofs] that remain, the bubble of laughter of youth stopped in [feverish research]."

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"The opposition [is] involved in its own civil war, and the President [is obeying] Napoleon's maxim: Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself."

The Making of the President 1964 - Theodore Whitea

Quotes adapted: The [re-]Making of a [Nation]! - anonymous