ABSTRACT
One of the youngest and best known of the exiled dissidents, representative of a broad spectrum of opinion—including ''the right to pay homage to no ideology at all''—is the thirty-seven-year-old Andrey Amalrik who has now emigrated to Holland. The authorities were so anxious for Amalrik to emigrate that, when he protested, they agreed to remission of the high rate of duty applicable to personal works of art taken out of the country. A number of young Americans would become ''Special Assistants'' and so watch the president and members of his cabinet at work from dose quarters. President Lyndon Johnson had made the acquaintance of this new ''Fellow of the White House'' at an evening ball and had danced with her. Doris Kearns was then active in the anti-Vietnam protest movement. Doris had meanwhile taken up with a philosophizing ''speechwriter'' for Democratic presidents and, to Harvard's consternation, revealed that her book was their combined work.
