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...predecessors. Thus last week he explained current U.S. objectives in Viet Nam by quoting something John F. Kennedy said in 1963, two months before his assassination: "We want the war to be won, the Communists to be contained and the Americans to go home." Often he cites Dwight Eisenhower's original pledge of U.S. aid-though this tactic has opened him to some serious criticism. Illinois' G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Charles Percy, for example, has complained that Johnson makes it sound as if "bombing within a few miles of China is really no different from honoring an offer...
...strictly obliged to go back to their old desks. Many prefer to move on to the expanded vistas of bigger newspapers and magazines, others try for better-paying jobs in public relations or politics. A man's pre-fellowship boss may have an understandable beef, but Nieman Curator Dwight Sargent insists that fiddle-footed journalists can hardly be blamed on higher learning. "With or without a grant," he says, "reporters are a restless...
...stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously to a decision once taken, and unlikely to be deflected from it by criticism." A later volume of Adenauer's memoirs will deal with Dwight Eisenhower...
...consecutive elections-four for the House, one for the office of state attorney-general and two for the U.S. Senate-beating his last opponent, James B. Donovan, with a plurality of nearly a million votes in 1962. He even carried overwhelmingly Democratic New York City in that year, although Dwight Eisenhower had lost there by 62,000 votes...
Later-Life Influence. At Columbia, Historian Dwight Miner, 61, carries with zest and buoyancy the weighty responsibility of teaching that college's long-famed course in contemporary civilization, following the tracks of such illustrious predecessors as Rexford Guy Tugwell and Jacques Barzun. Creeping, leaping, lolling his head like a cow, he tries to span everything from the Magna Carta to World...