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Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote scornfully of the Johnson Administration's policy of increasing ground troops in Viet Nam: "The bitter truth is that we can search the globe and look in vain for true and active supporters of our policy." Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse claimed that Johnson's Viet Nam policy was "not a consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger...
Newspaper editors generally pride themselves on letting a columnist say what he pleases, but last week Walter Lippmann said more than the editors of the New York Herald Tribune had bargained for. Writing once again from his own "neoisolationist" viewpoint, Lippmann declared: "My own view is that the conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...
...Trib was piqued enough to offer an editorial answer the same day: "When Mr. Lippmann asks how many Viet Nams the U.S. can defend in Asia, perhaps the best reply is an indirect one. How many are there to be? And if we yield in the present confrontation, how much more difficult will be the next? For better or for worse, the U.S. is the 'policeman' on which the threatened peoples in China's expansionist path depend for whatever hope they have of independence and freedom...
...three dailies take up great swatches of space reporting U.S. "teach-ins" and predicting the ultimate rejection of the war by the American people. As Honey says: "Reading the Hanoi papers, you would think that the only Senator in the U.S. is Wayne Morse and the only columnist Walter Lippmann. They offer all this as proof that their cause will succeed...
...kind of people who do not mind how much money they spend as long as it does not show. Swimming is possible, but the water is so bone-chilling that only the hardy or the invulnerable young do much of it except in swimming pools. Today, Nathan Pusey, Walter Lippmann, Thomas Gates, and Nelson Rockefeller go there to relax and enjoy some of the world's best sailing, with the major derivation of the visitors remaining Boston and Philadelphia ?the place is sometimes popularly known as Philadelphia on the rocks...