ABSTRACT
Conservative journalist Tom Wolfe assured a small but permanent fame for the whole business when he published The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The Time magazine supported Senator Eugene McCarthy, an expanded Pentagon and intervention in Eastern Europe when such countries as Hungary or Czechoslovakia rebelled against Soviet hegemony. Americans had somehow to survive the Depression and absorb the numerous displaced people who wished to make new careers in the Western Hemisphere. Americans then tried to survive the Cold War and absorb the fruits of a resilient capitalism as it found new strength during the 1950s. Robert Kennedy remained a personal friend of Senator McCarthy long after leaving the committee position, even though he came to dislike strongly many of the things McCarthy did. Neither John nor Robert Kennedy was an obvious liberal at the start of his career; they were merely opportunistic public servants who were the victims of their inheritance.
