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...chided his fellow intellectuals for their consistently conformist view of free world, and especially American, "failure." James Reston, the Times's Washington bureau chief, could contain his pent-up disdain for President Eisenhower no longer and dashed off a classic column of political satire. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop donned sackcloth in public and did penance for the venial sin of optimism...
...Alsop, the Jeremiah of the syndicated columnists, is so addicted to the gloomy view that even when things are looking up, Alsop is looking down. "It is still too early to say,'' he once wrote, "that the worst result is already inevitable." Yet in the first days of the U-2 flap, Joe Alsop astonished his readers with a memorable statement: "There is also wonderful news in the bad news of the American plane that was shot down in the Soviet Union...
...last week, though, Alsop had reverted to his ordinary gloomy self and even while retracting his lapse into optimism was blaming it on the Eisenhower Administration. Wrote he: "When the U-2 story first broke, it was natural to read very good news into the bad news. The U2's most significant effect in this country was to give a false picture of the continuing power of the American deterrent. As usual, the Administration failed to set the record straight...
...Joseph Alsop once described him as a frustrated journalist, and while Frankfurter consistently denounced the press as "the chief miseducators of the people," he has a good journalist's keen and sometimes merciless way of sizing up people. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau "hadn't a brain in his head." F.D.R.'s aide, Harry Hopkins, "had a feeling of a mistress toward President Roosevelt." Pundit Walter Lippmann's "job in life is to sit in a noise-proof room and draft things on paper" without ever going through the "heartbreaks of getting agreement...
...nation's capital the topic, naturally, was the Democratic White House steeplechase, and two front-row spectators, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Columnist Joseph Alsop, found themselves offering advice and opinion to each other at a Georgetown dinner party. Democrat Acheson made no secret of his partiality to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson as the ablest of all the Democratic presidential candidates. Alsop volunteered: "Why, I'd do anything to make his nomination possible." "Excellent, Joe," retorted Acheson tartly. "Attack...