Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's recent "profile" of Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, is a true half-portrait. The full man, as any daily reader of his column can attest, looks rather different...
...particular, Mr. McGill's excellent stand on racial justice must be contrasted with his deplorable views on Vietnam. An insistent supporter of the administration's tragic policy in southeast Asia, McGill (as well as the Constitution's editorials) would make his fellow-Georgian, Dean Rusk, proud. He has often substituted ridicule for reason, and he regularly employs the notion of "reason" in a most curious fashion...
...McGill's column last Saturday, entitled "The Fury of the Doves," is typical...
...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...Ralph McGill and Senator Fulbright are faithful representatives of the South: the two men, as well as the region, suffer some kind of moral schizophrenia, though in the case of the publisher and the Senator, they represent this malady in opposite directions. They reflect the most unenviable aspects of the heritage of the political culture of the South. Jingoism and racism. Each man has been able to overcome one of these burdens in his public life, but not both...