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 | | Kennedy was very taken by him, and, in fact, one of the things I show in the book is that John Kennedy very seriously considered naming Robert McNamara as his successor as president, assuming that he served two terms and was able to name his successor at the Democratic convention of 1968. |
 | | Kennedy was not someone who was without a streak of cruelty, and he did a number of things to make Stevenson feel small and essentially, as I say, cut him down to size. |
 | | Helms will not say that Kennedy approved them, yet at the same time I would say that he is at least, to some extent, justifiably irritated with the fact that the Kennedy people blame him for something that he feels John Kennedy authorized. |
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