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It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.
The press conference became a stage which betrayed the drift of his private thinking, rather than his convictions.
He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.
In this case others should not have had to raise the doubts and fears.
The Presidency demands an incisive awareness of the larger implications of the death of any incumbent.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
Ironically enough, in this instance such personal virtues were a luxury.

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