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Sphere of Influence. President Johnson himself feels he has converted some of his critics. Columnist Walter Lippmann, for example, after many pieces advising a hasty disengagement from South Viet Nam, last week acknowledged that a U.S. military buildup in the area of Danang would help the U.S. in any future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order...
...Asia is not of vital importance to the U.S. After all, so runs this argument, the U.S. is not omnipotent. Walter Lippmann contends that Asia is legitimately the sphere of Chinese influence, just as the Western Hemisphere is America's.* That contention is questionable. Since the early 19th century, the U.S. has grown to a major Pacific maritime power; to surrender the Pacific to China now makes no more sense than surrendering it to Imperial Japan would have in 1941. With Southeast Asia gone, the U.S. would rapidly approach a point where it might have no foothold in Asia...
...read and all anybody reads. When you were in trouble out in your state, Frank, I used to come out and give you a hand, didn't I?" Answered Church defensively: "Mr. President, what I've been saying isn't much different from what Walter Lippmann has been writing." The President had the last words. "Wal ter Lippmann," he said, "is a fine man. I admire him. Next time you're in trouble out in Idaho, Frank, you ask Walter to come help." Church has since noticeably modified his criticisms of U.S. policy in Viet...
...columnists, one solemn, one satirical, offered the State Department some policy advice last week that was strangely similar. On his annual CBS-TV interview, Walter Lippmann proposed his solution for attacks on U.S. installations abroad: "I think what we ought to do in a place like Cairo, if they burned down our library, is leave it burned down. Just leave it there. Don't rebuild it, don't clean the street even, and let it stand there as a monument to the thing. I think they'll soon want to clean it up themselves...
...least until recently, been a way to win favor either in the White House or in the power fastnesses of Congress." At another time, Kraft is quick to point out, Hoover was "a model of zeal for civil liberties." When liberals from Earl Warren to Walter Lippmann were demanding that California's Nisei be put in concentration camps for the duration of World War II, the FBI chief hotly protested, claiming that the demand for evacuation was "based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than upon factual data...