Statement to the Washington Post commenting on the Presidential Candidates
Item
Title
Statement to the Washington Post commenting on the Presidential Candidates
Contributor
Long, C.
Creator
Bertrand Russell
Date
May 20, 1968
Identifier
Bertrand Russell Archives, Box 9.15, 220.148751a
Language
eng
Rights
McMaster University
Source
Bertrand Russell Archives
Text
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
A COMMENT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
To those who wish to dismantle the American empire, create full employment, destroy the ghettos and respect black rights, the major candidates are irrelevant combinations of empty rhetoric and personal ambition. Humphrey is totally discredited after four years as Johnson's cipher. Robert Kennedy's cynical, calculating ambition is unequalled. His embarrassment at the failure in Vietnam does not conceal his complete orthodoxy on foreign policy. McCarthy, the least unattractive major candidate, failed to develop an articulate or frontal attack on Johnson's Vietnam policy and, like Kennedy, would leave all the major assumptions of foreign policy unchanged. Nixon would probably be the most dangerous man in office.
Bertrand Russell
May 20, 1968
A COMMENT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
To those who wish to dismantle the American empire, create full employment, destroy the ghettos and respect black rights, the major candidates are irrelevant combinations of empty rhetoric and personal ambition. Humphrey is totally discredited after four years as Johnson's cipher. Robert Kennedy's cynical, calculating ambition is unequalled. His embarrassment at the failure in Vietnam does not conceal his complete orthodoxy on foreign policy. McCarthy, the least unattractive major candidate, failed to develop an articulate or frontal attack on Johnson's Vietnam policy and, like Kennedy, would leave all the major assumptions of foreign policy unchanged. Nixon would probably be the most dangerous man in office.
Bertrand Russell
May 20, 1968
