Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through 60 turbulent years of American history, the liberal weekly New Republic exerted a distinctive influence on political thought. Its tradition, shaped by men like Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson, continues today with John Osborne's respected "White House Watch," Richard Strout's pseudonymous "TRB" Washington column and Walter Pincus' lacerating political analysis...
Richard Nixon's diplomatic moves toward China and the Soviet Union won Lippmann's praise, but he lamented the Watergate morass as "the worst scandal in our history...
Never Again. Lippmann's most famous public feud was with Lyndon Johnson. L.B. J. had courted Lippmann's support on the Viet Nam War in the belief that Lippmann could swing the nation's liberals and academics into line; the vilification heaped on Lippmann for his opposition prompted Washington Post Cartoonist Herblock to write of the Johnson Administration's "War on Walter Lippmann...
...height of public acrimony in 1967, Lippmann gave up his Washington home and moved back to New York. Journalist Marquis Childs recalls Lippmann's dejection at the time: "He was saying 'Never again, never again.' " But he continued to speak out as a contributor to Newsweek and in interviews...
Died. Walter Lippmann, 85, sagacious titan of American journalism (see THE PRESS...