. @BeschlossDC last week of RFK's life. today they'd be sparring, with less civility, over Super PAC attack spots rather than newspaper ads
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Replying to @JohnJHarwood
@JohnJHarwood And you can imagine how ugly & scurrilous those attack spots might be.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@BeschlossDC though, given McCarthy's tastes, perhaps his attacks would be laced w/dry humor. how would you have responded@greenfield64 ?3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @JohnJHarwood
@JohnJHarwood@BeschlossDC Our goal was to come out of CA united behind one peace candidate. So response would not have been tough on McC.2 replies 2 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @greenfield64
@greenfield64@JohnJHarwood Jeff, how optimistic were you that McCarthy would pull out after California if he lost there?2 replies 2 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BeschlossDC
@BeschlossDC@JohnJHarwood Not very.Margin in CA was only 46-42. But some of his backers (Sam Brown) were going to jump.4 replies 2 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @greenfield64
@greenfield64@JohnJHarwood Methinks you might have had a long summer trying to wear down McCarthy's excuses for staying in the race.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @BeschlossDC
@BeschlossDC Would've been like asking the Dalai Lama to abdicate.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ChrisConnelly
@ChrisConnelly Dalai Lama doesn't have the expansive view of his place in the cosmos that Gene may have had of his own by that point in '68.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @BeschlossDC
@BeschlossDC That is a true story. Gene might've gone at RFK all the way to Chicago like his most donnish instructor at Portsmouth Priory.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@ChrisConnelly As long as he lived, McCarthy never got over his bitterness at RFK for coming into the 1968 race.
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Replying to @BeschlossDC
@BeschlossDC@ChrisConnelly This is why I love Twitter. For threads like this one...0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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