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...chart U.S. policy and those who challenge it. On that score, at least, the hearings' anti-Administration sponsors last week could only regret the cameras' unblinking presence. For, unlike the previous week, when the committee's star witnesses-retired General James Gavin and Sovietologist George F. Kennan-were convinced opponents of the effort in Viet Nam, the closing sessions were effectively dominated by two of the Administration's most polished and lucid articulators...
...President honed his sharpest barbs for those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
Lacouture contrasted Taylor's views with those of George F. Kennan, former ambassador to the Soviet Union and current University Fellow. He called Kennan's testimony, opposing escalation, "the wisest thing said there...
...case for a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam was argued before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week by the distinguished career diplomat who is generally regarded as the architect of America's postwar policy of containment against Communist aggression in Europe. George F. Kennan, who retired from the State Department in 1963 to return to his professorship at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, believes that resisting Communist aggression in Southeast Asia is "not our business." Excerpts...
...week it was Fulbright's turn to shoot. Most top Administration officials were either in Honolulu or Saigon, and thus, in his committee's third week of sessions devoted primarily to the war, Fulbright had to make do with Retired General James Gavin and ex-Diplomat George Kennan, neither of whom has served in any official capacity for sev eral years. Both eagerly echoed Ful bright's apprehensions about Viet...