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John Lent / AP When RFK Played the What-If Game
In 1966, The Atlantic assigned the NBC News correspondent Douglas Kiker to take the measure of the late president's brother and political heir, who, seeing the presidency as his destiny and his due, was biding his time until Lyndon B. Johnson was out of the way.
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The Education of Robert McNamara
The second most powerful man in Washington is also the second most controversial, writes Douglas Kiker, the ATLANTIC’S Washington columnist. How six years in the Pentagon have changed Robert McNamara is detailed in these pages; how McNamara has changed the Pentagon is described, beginning on page 56, by his onetime special assistant.
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With this issue, Douglas Kiker becomes the regular writer of the ATLANTIC’S Washington Report. He will contribute longer articles on public affairs as well. Mr. Kiker, thirty-six. married, and the father of two children, is a Washington correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company. He was White House correspondent for the now departed New York HERALD TRIBUNE, onetime Director of Public Information for the Peace Corps, and before that covered politics and civil rights in his native Georgia. He is the author of two novels.
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Robert Kennedy and the What if Game
An epic novel’s worth of intrigue and fate, hope and despair, alliance and feud has been telescoped into the life of the Democratic Party since the Kennedy-Johnson ticket was forged at the Los Angeles convention six years ago. Douglas Kiker, New York Herald Tribune White House reporter for two and a half years and now an NBC news correspondent, examines “the tangled relationship between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson,” and predicts how, why, and when the plot will thicken.
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