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...This is no time for the press of a great nation to play Hamlet-or Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann's China-doorstep arguments about Southeast Asia today are identical with his Russia-doorstep arguments about Greece and Turkey in 1947-and I believe identically fallacious about what the United States should...
...President honed his sharpest barbs for those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...from Lippmann. The magazine has only 17,500 subscribers, but its influence is well out of proportion to its size. Readers range all the way from Martin Luther King to Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing to Walter Lippmann, who recently paid tribute to C & C in the form of a $5,000 gift. Over the years, its contributors have included Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain, Adlai Stevenson and John Foster Dulles...
...Walter Lippmann...
...Great Society and the War on Poverty. The philosophy behind having Great Society and Poverty programs at all, as well as the urgency which President Johnson himself has attributed to them, contradicts this concept of priorities. The choice, often pictured as one between guns and butter, is as Walter Lippmann has said, "between raising taxes and neglecting the future." But even if one ignores the question of priorities, the budget still appears unrealistic. According to Administration plans, tax revenues should increase by about $6 billion. If the GNP for 1966 is above the estimate of $722 billion by the same...