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uiimer. x recall, me dinner itself was nothing much. McCarthy discarded the speech his aides had prepared for him and spoke impromptu for maybe half an hour. He could be the most charming of men when he felt like it, and that night in Newark he was still radiating the New Hampshire glow. About 10 o’clock he pleaded fatigue, shooed away his aides, and - memorably - invited Haynes and me to come up to his suite for a toddy.
The three of us accordingly adjourned sine die. For the next two hours, we political junkies sat on the rump-sprung sofas and talked mostly about - poetry. It was McCarthy’s abiding passion. His hosts had thoughtfully furnished the suite with a large bottle, maybe two large bottles, of excellent 'Ifennessee whiskey. I cannot speak for Haynes Johnson, but the candidate and I began to treat this commendable juice with the deference it most certainly deserves.
Thus inspired, we began to quote our favorite passages. We started with Shakespeare. I launched into Sonnet XVIII. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” They hooted me down for banality. Our host recalled Sonnet XXVII, “weary with toil, I haste me to my bed.” We said it was much too early to retire. We lassoed Gray’s lowing herd. With Wordsworth we wandered briefly, lonely as a cloud. I recall nothing of Keats or Byron or Shelley. The only Browning who made the cut was Elizabeth, “How do I love thee, let me count the ways.” We solemnly agreed with Kipling that Gunga Din was a better man than any of us in the room. We rode with Ttennyson’s doomed brigade.
As the clock moved on and the booze went down, Haynes and I began to fade. McCarthy was only warming up. He recalled the shooting of Dan McGrew. He cremated Sam
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