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Chilling Parallels. "This emphatically is not 'Westmoreland's War,' " observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief John Steele. "In years past, it has been quite properly referred to as 'McNamara's War,' and currently it can be referred to as 'Johnson's War.' From no source is there real criticism yet of Westy's military activities. This will come should Khe Sanh, by some horrible fate, fall...
...back into his city room at 5 p.m. one day last week to find the place filled with excitement and clusters of buzzing reporters. "I thought that maybe the President had been shot or that somebody had declared war on us," he said later. "But it was just that bureau thing...
...That "bureau thing" was, in one sense, only another office battle about careers and advancement. But it also had far wider implications about how the Times is run and by whom. The paper has more editorial direction than most of the nation's dailies. Even so, it often appears to be a kind of symposium of independent correspondents. The Times's trio of top editors-Turner Catledge, Clifton Daniel and A. M. Rosenthal-have long wanted to assert more authority and central purpose, notably in regard to the Washington bureau...
...grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...
Conceived last Spring, the write-in campaign was organized last summer by three leading Granite State Democrats, Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre. Gov. John W. King, and former Federal bureau director Bernard Boutin, now an executive at Sanders Associates, a leading defense contracting company in Nashua. Though Boutin and King deny any connection, the movement to "Draft RFK in '68" began a few weeks prior to the first "serious" planning meetings in the LBJ campaign. The Draft Kennedy movement has since been absorbed in the McCarthy campaign...