The article gives excellent context for the Kennedy visit to Duke but from one who was there, it generated considerably more attention and excitement than implied. The auditorium was filled as JFK was young with special appeal to the college age generation. Coeds from East Campus, then the Womans College, with strict requirements for checking out of one's dorm to attend evening events, were noticably present. Having the event televised was a relatively new experience, and it showed the importance of his visit beyond the campus. North Carolina was key to JFK garnering any Southern support for the party nomination with Lyndon Johnson as a major opponent to Kennedy. An equally young, somewhat unknown, local politicial was challenging the old guard in NC, and when Terry Sanford secured the nomination for governor and became the first southernor to declare for Kennedy, he entered the national stage. [One long lasting result of his support was getting the Environmental Protectation Agency (EPA) situated in the then new Research Triangle Park thus changing the area forever.]As events played out then and much later, the Duke community was to become more and more visible beyond the state and region through President Sanford. The publication of "The Christmas Story" and the supression of the Duke Chronicle was a big campus event and it is too bad it curtailed coverage of Kennedy's campus visit. When Kennedy announced his intent to seek the presidential nomination the next day in Washington it confirmed the wishes of many students in attendance and ultimately brought more and more young, especially first time voters, into politics.