The Good Fight by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

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A month later, the army sent more military advisors to Vietnam. They were beefing up for something, but no one knew what, and Meredith got into more arguments with her father about the growing threat in Vietnam, none of which he believed, no matter how often she and her grandfather said it to him. He remained a devoted hawk.

The only real fun in Meredith’s life at the moment was the campaign work she did for John Kennedy. She stepped up the time she committed to it in the spring. And she was either in the library, studying for school, or at campaign headquarters, doing whatever tasks she was assigned. She was willing to do anything to help.

It all paid off in July when Kennedy won the Democratic nomination. And two weeks later, Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination. He was still Robert’s preferred candidate, of course.

As things got busier over the summer, Meredith found herself working side by side with a third-year Harvard law student, Adam Thompson, who was as dedicated to Kennedy’s campaign as she was, and they went out for a drink afterward several times. They were both in love with the idea of Kennedy in the White House and everything it would mean to the nation. It seemed like America’s time had come, they had found their prince, and everyone’s dreams would come true.

Meredith liked Kennedy’s position on civil rights, and she enjoyed going out with Adam. They had fun together, grousing about law school and how much work it was. He was spending the whole summer working on the campaign, and other than a week on Martha’s Vineyard, so did she. She even got her little brother to hand out flyers and leaflets with her, and he was excited about Kennedy too. Neither of them thought Nixon was an appealing prospect, and she hoped he wouldn’t win. Her father was staunchly wearing a Nixon button on his lapel every day. And every time she and her brother put up Kennedy posters or banners in the house, he took them down.

Adam, her Harvard law student friend, was good company. He told her that he’d recently broken up with a Radcliffe senior named Wendy at the beginning of the summer and admitted that he wasn’t completely over her yet. So they went on outings, but Merrie wouldn’t sleep with him, although he tried. They took a blazing hot day off and went to Jones Beach together. She introduced him to Claudia and Thaddeus, and they liked him. Claudia and Thaddeus were fairly serious by then. She was working on her book with his encouragement, and making slow but steady progress, recording her childhood memories of the war, her family, and the camp.

Meredith hated to take time off from the campaign when she went back to law school for her second year. But every weekend, she turned up at campaign headquarters for at least one day and Adam came down from Boston to volunteer and see her.

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