* At another dinner party, Harriman complained that Kennedy was “still trying too hard to get a national consensus before he moved on anything.” Turning to Schlesinger, he said, “I told one of you White House fellows the other day that, whatever you do, whatever compromises you make, you are never going to get the support of the [far-right] John Birch Society. Those fellows [at the White House] think too much about passing legislation and too little about mobilizing the country. Tell them that. Tell them I said that.”