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...Cuba, irresolution in Laos, and humiliation in space-one after another the blows landed, and even such Kennedy enthusiasts as Columnist Walter Lippmann winced as they found flaws in their onetime hero; the background editorial music, so bright and lilting at inauguration time, turned dissonant and harsh. Columnist Doris Fleeson, a onetime Stevensonian who had been willing enough to cheer for the President, now decided that "golden boy" had responded to adversity with "something less than the grace expected...
Action needs definition, and both press and politicians have been wondering what to call President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen. In the first week, "pragmatic liberals" was the vogue. Then Doris Fleeson, den mother of the liberal columnists, thought she had a better term: "contemporary" Democrats. After the State of the Union speech, the New York Times chipped in with "cautious activist...
...machine precision of Kennedy's political strategy gave Columnist Doris Fleeson a sudden chill. "Efficiently, almost coldly," she wrote, "President-elect Kennedy and his new team of intellectuals, investment bankers, management experts and bright young men are taking over their Washington assignments. But it is already clear that a fascinating and power-laden quality is sadly lacking-and that is personal fervor, with all that it means in warmth, excitement and flair . . . The art or trick of leadership is not just rational action, but articulation of it in ways that reach the public's heart as well...
...Call It Trivial." Where the pundits of the press have long underscored the importance of ideas and idealism in U.S. Government, now they praised Kennedy for his grasp of parochial politics. Glowed Columnist Doris Fleeson: "Kennedy is yielding every minor point to Vice President-elect Johnson and the Rayburri-Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item...
...DORIS FLEESON...