Success without cussing! Pauly's method worked. I went to the hardware store and got a piece of pvc plastic pipe with inner diameter of 2" and a piece of steel plumbing pipe with an inner diameter of 1 5/8". I put the lower ball joint in a vise and slipped the smaller tube over the boot. I put a piece of wood across the tube and gave it a good rap with a heavy hammer and it went right on. I already had the upper control arm/upper ball joint on the car so I did the same arrangement with the plastic tube but I used a long C clamp to press the boot on.
These unexpected difficulties has made the learning curve steep for this front end rebuild project.