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Negotiating tactics? Saigon's ability to fight? Has the basic American stake in Viet Nam changed? These are some of the questions of the war debate, issues on which thousands of lives depend and to which there are no simple answers. They are also problems that are in danger of being obscured as Richard Nixon's counterattack on the tactics and legitimacy of dissent overshadows the core questions. Opponents of his policies have managed to outshout-but not outnumber-those willing to give Nixon more time. Convinced that strong public support in the U.S. is essential if Hanoi...
...rock bottom now in these talks, so it doesn't really make any difference who sits around that table," one frustrated American official commented in Paris. The view from Washington seems similar and that helps explain why President Nixon last week accepted-"with great regret and warmest thanks"-Henry Cabot Lodge's resignation as chief U.S. negotiator at the deadlocked Paris peace talks. Lodge's deputy, Manhattan Attorney Lawrence Walsh, also quit. Both resignations will be effective...
...away rather than end with a formal settlement, he became convinced that the Communists have no desire to seek an agreement. They are not likely to do so, he thinks, unless the South Vietnamese forces prove their capacity to carry on the war indefinitely. They would require continued massive American support and that, Lodge believes, would be forthcoming-if at all-only with fewer draftees and more volunteers in a different U.S. Army. In sum, Lodge apparently feels, Hanoi more than ever hopes to dominate the South and discredit the U.S., thus advancing the cause of both international Communism...
...always Joe Kennedy's emphatic wish that money never be discussed, at the family dinner table or in public. "It's just not an important enough matter to talk over," he said. His assessment was much too modest. Money underlies the family's unique position in American life, although money does not fully explain it. The Kennedy wealth, like the family's political capital, is both large and arcane. TIME asked Richard J. Whalen, Kennedy's biographer (The Founding Father), to take a fresh look at the fortune on the founder's death...
...where it is: the income matters, not the capital. Informed estimates of the wealth cluster around $400 million, putting the Kennedys well down on the list of the nation's richest dynasties. The fortune is unusual in several respects. It is one of the few modern American fortunes of such size not derived principally from oil. Well over $100 million came from real estate speculation conducted by astute agents after Joe Kennedy had more or less retired from an active business role. Another substantial portion-perhaps $100 million if the managers have followed the rule of thumb applied...