Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonable assessments of their bargaining strengths. To facilitate that assessment, the United States should state now that it would be willing to accept the NLF as an equal party in negotiations and as a participant in any elections to determine the final political solution. We must realize, as Walter Lippmann points out, that "An absurd and impossible commitment is not a true commitment in law or morals, and a commitment to make General Ky the accepted ruler of South Vietnam is both absurd and impossible." By consolidating its commitment in Vietnam, the U.S. will make that commitment more convincing...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
...miles of the Chinese border. Yet Hanoi is pouring more men and matériel into the South each month. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a long, costly stalemate may well persuade more and more Americans that the pacifists and isolationists and columnists such as Walter Lippmann-not to mention Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh-were right all along in arguing that the U.S. has no business in Asia. If that feeling becomes general, the U.S. will be forced into the trap of seeking a negotiated settlement from a position of weakness-which at worst will...
...only the conservative view of news and dismiss what is distasteful to them. Now they give equal space to varying shades of opinion. The editorial pages not only support Democratic Senator Carl Hayden as well as Republican Senator Paul Fannin; they also balance liberal columnists, such as Walter Lippmann, against conservatives, such as William Buckley. Morale was once so low that innumerable staffers quit in disgust, and many were fired. Now, Pulliam runs a happy shop. "We are all Pulliam's babies," says one veteran staffer, actually brushing away a tear...
Wars, Presidents and newspapers have come and gone, and the columnists of yesterday still write on, as confidently as ever. Arthur Krock at 79, David Lawrence at 76, Walter Lippmann at 76, and Drew Pearson at 67 remain familiar if greying presences in the nation's press. Roscoe Drummond, 63, James Reston, 56, and Joseph Alsop, 55, have been around so long that they too seem part of the patriarchy. But the roster of challengers is growing fast...