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Certainly, President Johnson does not want for critics of his war policies. What is all too often lacking, however, is criticism that meets the tests of rationality and responsibility. Galbraith, 59, a Harvard economist whose power of persuasion and talent for popularization are as noteworthy as his Brobdingnagian size (he is 6 ft. 8 in.), offers more convincingly than almost anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely...
...Whole Issue. For a decade the most quotable?and possibly influential ?critic of U.S. society, Galbraith has spent a good half of his time in recent months focusing on the single issue of Viet Nam. He has promoted his plan for de-escalation on TV, held forth from college platforms across the country, argued his case in publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and Playboy. His How to Get Out of Viet Nam, a 47-page, 350 broadside, has gone through a printing of 250,000. As national chairman of the liberal, 50,000-member Americans...
...that Galbraith, with most people anyway, enjoys being thought arrogant, just as some people find odd pleasure in being thought ruthless or mean. Galbraith, says Buckley, "always gives the impression that he is on very temporary leave from Olympus, where he holds classes on the maintenance of divine standards...
...Voice in the Land. Politics fascinates Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...
...Galbraith would disagree vehemently. "If there are differences of opinion," he said at last week's Roosevelt dinner, "there should be men to represent them." The fact is that while there are more than enough men to criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam, few have spoken so clearly and responsibly as Galbraith, or searched so hard for a viable way out. "I want to change things," he says. "I want to see things happen. I don't want just to talk about them...