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...would soften his point of view to become acceptable to a wider portion of the electorate. Goldwater's recent vote against the popular test ban treaty indicates, for the present at least, a decision to maintain the integrity of his previous beliefs. Whether this implies "political suicide," as Lippmann contends, remains, for the moment, academic...
Another columnist unburdening himself about Goldwater was Walter Lippmann-who just happened to be making a sedate sort of turnabout. Only a few weeks before (TIME, Sept. 6), Lippmann, the high priest of liberal Democratic pundits, had practically excommunicated Goldwater from the G.O.P. as one whose "philosophy is radically opposed to the central traditions of the Republican Party...
...last week Lippmann seemed to be un-excommunicating Barry. The Arizona Republican, wrote Lippmann, had backed away from such radical stands as repeal of Social Security* and the graduated income tax laws. Now, Goldwater "is well along on the road where he will sound less and less like Goldwater and more and more like Eisenhower. If he is to be nominated and is to stand any chance of election, he must make himself acceptable to the preponderant mass of the voters. They are not on the right and they are not on the left, but around the center." Concluded Lippmann...
Basement Brooder. His aides began scrounging for "new ideas" to work into his speech. Stevenson brought down a sheaf of suggestions. The State Department produced a blizzard of memos. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. phoned Pundit Walter Lippmann to ask what the President might discuss. McGeorge Bundy brooded in the White House basement, jotting occasional thoughts on yellow legal paper. The final drafting was left mainly to Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who was still scribbling away as he flew with Kennedy to Manhattan on the eve of the speech...
...than justified the Tribune's decision to bring him back from Paris, where he played journalistic jester for 14 years (TIME, June 22, 1962). At the time, there were those who doubted that Buchwald would feel comfortable in the presence of such sobersides as Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann or find anything funny about Washington. But the fears proved groundless. Buchwald simply invented his own Washington...