Been warm and clear in washington the president retired just before midnight to the Family Living quarters in the white house after the state reception for a visiting guest but his rest that night was cut short by a message from president ial assistant walt rostow. At 3 30 am the president was awakened with the news that senator Robert Kennedy in the midst of victory in the california president ial primary had been shot and critically. Wounded by an assassin the president s reaction to this shocking event was immediate. He ordered secret Service Protection for the major president ial candidates dispatched a plane with special medical assistance to los angeles and later in the day went on nationwide television to announce the appointment of a commission to study the climate of violence and extremism in america. 200 million americans did not strike down Robert Kennedy last night. Anymore than they struck down president John F Kennedy in 1963 or dr. Martin luther king and april of this ye
Been warm and clear in washington the president retired just before midnight to the Family Living quarters in the white house after the state reception for a visiting guest but his rest that night was cut short by a message from president ial assistant walt rostow. At 3 30 am the president was awakened with the news that senator Robert Kennedy in the midst of victory in the california president ial primary had been shot and critically. Wounded by an assassin the president s reaction to this shocking event was immediate. He ordered secret Service Protection for the major president ial candidates dispatched a plane with special medical assistance to los angeles and later in the day went on nationwide television to announce the appointment of a commission to study the climate of violence and extremism in america. 200 million americans did not strike down Robert Kennedy last night. Anymore than they struck down president John F Kennedy in 1963 or dr. Martin luther king and april of this ye
Been warm and clear in washington the president retired just before midnight to the Family Living quarters in the white house after the state reception for a visiting guest but his rest that night was cut short by a message from president ial assistant walt rostow. At 3 30 am the president was awakened with the news that senator Robert Kennedy in the midst of victory in the california president ial primary had been shot and critically. Wounded by an assassin the president s reaction to this shocking event was immediate. He ordered secret Service Protection for the major president ial candidates dispatched a plane with special medical assistance to los angeles and later in the day went on nationwide television to announce the appointment of a commission to study the climate of violence and extremism in america. 200 million americans did not strike down Robert Kennedy last night. Anymore than they struck down president John F Kennedy in 1963 or dr. Martin luther king and april of this ye
Here the evening of june 4th had been warm and clear in washington the president retired just before midnight to the Family Living quarters in the white house after the state reception for a visiting guest but his rest that night was cut short by a message from president ial assistant walt rostow. At 3 30 am the president was awakened with the news that senator Robert Kennedy in the midst of victory in the california president ial primary had been shot and critically. Wounded by an assassin the president s reaction to this shocking event was immediate. He ordered secret Service Protection for the major president ial candidates dispatched a plane with special medical assistance to los angeles and later in the day went on nationwide television to announce the appointment of a commission to study the climate of violence and extremism in america. 200 million americans did not strike down Robert Kennedy last night. Anymore than they struck down president John F Kennedy in 1963 or dr. Martin
The nixon and administration. Jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. More research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. Its published in cold war history in early 2003. We give the first full account of the alert and argued that the Readiness Test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. Warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arrange a settlement. By putting u. S. Nuclear forces and conventional forces on high readiness, nixon wanted to joel sovietsold jolk to end the war quickly. Those were some of the key elements of the argument we presented in the article. Later, with more sources become available, we decided there was enough material to justify a book on the october alert and the larger context of the next and white