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...link was broken with the resignation of Dr. Eric F. Goldman, 51, who since 1964 had served the Administration as a part-time intellectual-in-residence. That raised a question: Would Johnson, whose appreciation of the intelligentsia is somewhat less than passionate, replace the missing link? The answer, typically Johnsonian, was both...
Behind the Johnsonian veil of secrecy, the selection process has already begun. Last week the President named Zbigniew Brzezinski, the astute, dynamic director of Columbia University's Research Institute on Communist Affairs since 1961, to a secondary but sensitive and influential post on State's Policy Planning Council. Polish-born and Canadian-reared, Brzezinski, a U.S. citizen since 1958, has been a persuasive advocate for the U.S. position in Viet Nam at widely publicized teach-ins. He is singularly attuned to the many nuances of modern Communism and has suggested bold departures in American policy to capitalize...
Comfort from David. It was a singularly deft-even gracious-rejoinder to an implacable if honorably intentioned critic, an illustration of what some observers see as a healthy change in the unpredictable Johnsonian personality. The President has developed a kind of immunity to criticism; though he scarcely enjoys it, it rankles less than it used to and he has come to recognize adverse comment as a natural affliction of his office. Harry Truman, he notes, was a constant target of the critics, yet is now remembered for his wise decisions rather than for the deep freezers accepted by Military Aide...
Bare Branch. It was the President's first trip outside the North American continent since entering the White House, and it was organized with the characteristic Johnsonian gusto for the unexpected. A compelling though unacknowledged reason for the sudden decision was the opportunity it gave the President to steal the spotlight from the Fulbright committee's televised hearings on the war. But there were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that...
...reasoned summation was offered by Columnist Max Lerner. "Many will view the whole Honolulu venture as a tricky Johnsonian gimmick to give the outward semblance of activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or believe that his moves have been wholly histrionic. There is a logic to his latest move, the logic of adding political warfare as a third phase of the American effort, to fill out the triangle whose other two sides are formed by the military operations and the diplomatic operations...