European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Continued from a Titi him and a Man named Eugene Mccarthy. And then in 1004, Johnson was run Ning for election in his own right this Man who prizes superlatives like big Gest and richest and Best running like a Tornado crying through a bullhorn that he wanted to be president of All the people denouncing Barry Gold water As trigger Happy picturing himself As the apostle of restraint shouting an shouting from a Throat hoarse with a Hundred campaigns yall come Downto hear the speaking not until election eve did he slowdown and in a moment of rare Candor about his life say quietly it seems Tome that i have spent my life getting ready for this  the moment proved the biggest his popular vote was the biggest his plurality was the big Gest but a Shadow remained around the Man who wanted to be loved was the vote an affirmation of Lyndon Johnson or a negative wave against Goldwater there was that and always there was something else. From the beginning it seemed whatever his accomplishments he heard nothing but style style style and directly or implicitly he was com pared to the late president and almost invariably the live president lost. People thought of Kennedy s style and it became even More vivid in death than life. They remembered that he seemed to represent another younger generation a fresh Breed of politicians widely different from the stereotyped Hacks. They remembered his dignity his sense of privacy that would not allow him to Wear India feathers or kiss babies his poise his wit his intellect his restraint his Sens of delicacy and the appropriate. They remembered that cruel sight on television the Day after his head was shattered of John Kennedy s rocking chair being bumped out of the White House and across the Street. And no too Long after another Rocker was moved into the president s office this one be longing to Lyndon Johnson. And not too Long after that it seemed there waste new Man in the Job shouting Down from the White House Balcony to re porters to come look at a real live poet or Prince pleading with strike negotiators to get it Over with because lady Bird is waiting pointing out his Daugh Ter s Loose dress and telling his visitors it did t mean what they thought or Dering the Muzak turned on and driving fast on the ranch introducing his wife a he ends with a nation shaken by.  As my Secretary of War exhibiting for photographers and the world his recent operation scar. It would take an army of psychiatrists and pollsters to calculate precisely the effects of style on Lyndon Johnson destiny in the White House. But it seems reasonable to assume that for Man people he became less believable especially to the Young whose first presi Dent was John Kennedy the Young who Felt cheated by his death and somehow came away feeling you could t rely on the establishment the Young who found no truth in the War in Vietnam or the slowness of racial Progress at Home who later would March on the Pentagon and the induction centers and Man the mimeograph machines in new Hamp Shire and Wisconsin. But All this presumably is now behind Lyndon Johnson who for swears another term in the White House. And nowhere comes Robert Kennedy. The John son years end As they began and the irony threatens to come full Circle. T Ondon