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...Overseas Weekly mounted an all-out assault on General Walker, charged that by pamphlet and speech he was indoctrinating his troops with the far-right politics of the John Birch Society. Walker, the paper reported, had made public statements to the effect that Edward R. Murrow and Columnist Walter Lippmann were "confirmed Communists" and that 60% of the U.S. press was Communist controlled. As a result of the story. General Walker was relieved of his command. Walker has sued an Overseas Weekly reporter for slander-and Marion Rospach has sued the general for slander. Suddenly, after eleven unsung years...
...difficult to quarrel with Kennan's hindsight. One can however, criticize Kennan for falling to treat in sufficient detail the role of foreign policy in a democracy. Like Lippmann in The Public Philosophy, Kennan moans about democracies liability to pursue an effective foreign policy, but he gives no realistic suggestion as to how this can be corrected...
...March 27, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went to the White House to see Kennedy, principally about Laos. Again the matter of a meeting of the two K.s came up, and Kennedy said he was willing. Two weeks later, Khrushchev took visiting U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann aside in the garden of a villa in Sochi and confided the news...
Disaster in Cuba, irresolution in Laos, and humiliation in space-one after another the blows landed, and even such Kennedy enthusiasts as Columnist Walter Lippmann winced as they found flaws in their onetime hero; the background editorial music, so bright and lilting at inauguration time, turned dissonant and harsh. Columnist Doris Fleeson, a onetime Stevensonian who had been willing enough to cheer for the President, now decided that "golden boy" had responded to adversity with "something less than the grace expected...
Cause to Howl. Pundit Lippmann's cup of wormwood spilled over: "President Kennedy is in grave trouble. If, after the appalling mistake of judgment in the Cuban venture, he allows himself to be sucked into the quicksands of Laos, he will have compromised, perhaps irrevocably, his influence on events." For the architects of failure in Cuba, Lippmann hotly demanded expulsion ("The mistake can be purged and confidence can be restored only by the resignation of the key figures who had the primary responsibility"), and fingered the culprits: "Bissell and Dulles of the CIA, Lemnitzer and Burke of the Joint...