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30 Breaking the North Vietnamese will to fight on, McNamara told the president, was not likely unless the American public's own willingness to persevere indefinitely was persuasive to the enemy. "And the American public, frustrated by the slow rate of progress, fearing continued escalation and doubting that all the approaches to peace have been seriously probed," he wrote, "does not give the appearance of having the will to persist. As the months go by, there will be both increasing pressure for widening the war and continued loss of support for American participation in the struggle.

His brother Ted returned from a trip to South Vietnam to investigate the refugee problem and reported it to be, like the war itself, a fiasco. On Robert Kennedy's trip to California, Speaker Jesse Unruh of the state assembly got his ear. Unruh was considering a race for the United States Senate and was commissioning a poll to assess his chances. He said he was going to include questions about Kennedy's popularity in the state and urged him to hold the door open on a presidential candidacy until the results were in.

Then as many as 35,000 marched across the Memorial Bridge connecting Washington with suburban Arlington, Virginia, and over to the Pentagon, where they conducted a vigil that night and all the next day, into the night. As part of the protest, more than 300 draft-age males turned in their Selective Service cards. Then they were handed to a flustered associate attorney general at the Justice Department by William Sloane Coffin, the chaplain of Yale University, Dr. Spock, antiwar activists Raskin and Waskow and others.

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