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...look for any good news from Paris. For Nixon, peace means means victory." David I. Halberstam '55, told a near capacity audience in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
Devaluation is becoming the mode. In The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam sees Camelot as an act of hubris created by overconfident young jerry-builders. In the current Harper's, the British journalist Henry Fairlie condemns Camelot as a sort of Washington, D.C., Disneyland that substituted the "politics of expectation" for the politics of performance. Just when the veneer is cracking and the gilt peeling, two members of Kennedy's "Irish Mafia," Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, have come along with their ghostwriter, Joe McCarthy, to add another bestselling chorus to the Camelot legend...
...David L. Halberstam '55 will open a three-part lecture series next week on society's values and how these values are reflected in major current issues...
...Halberstam, presently a fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute, will concentrate on Vietnam policy-making under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, the subject of his recent book. The Best and the Brightest...
...BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST by David Halberstam. In a series of political profiles, the author tells how overconfidence helped lead to the morass in Viet...