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Lord Harlech, formerly David Ormsby-Gore, comes to the Vietnam issue with rare credentials. A good friend of President Kennedy, he was ambassador to Washington throughout the New Frontier. Now, as deputy leader of the House of Lords, he is one of Ted Heath's "new men." Newsweek calls him "the Tory to watch," predicting that he will head the Foreign Office if and when the Conservatives are elected. He has had experience in the Far East, and advised JFK as well as his own government on the Laotian muddle. As a veteran disarmament negotiator and UN delegate...
...that they are being measured against one another. The Vice-President, while discharging his duties, has taken care to make himself attractive to the public. During his Asian tour, he seemed to be following carefully the instructions of a confidential memorandum on "improving his image" that was reprinted in Newsweek several weeks ago. Humphrey's enthusiasm for the current South Vietnamese government and his natural ebullience seemed a little out of place in a country that has been at war for twenty years, especially in comparison to the sombre mood of his more experienced companion, Averell Harriman. But the pictures...
...press secretary, he spent lots of time with the newspapermen who covered civil rights in the South. Two of them, Claude Sitton of the New York Times and Karl Fleming of Newsweek, have become his culture heroes. That he would admire these men, that he would speak so openly of his reservations about making a career in politics, and talk longingly of running a newspaper (he was the first managing editor of the militant Atlanta weekly, the Inquirer), set Julian off from SNCC...
...have always considered the Harvard Conservative a junior version of the National Review. The defining trait of the latter has been accurately suggested by Theodore Sorenson. Speaking at Leverett House several years ago, he remembered that "Mr. Kennedy read Time and Newsweek to discover the misinformation that forms public opinion and browsed National Review to keep his blood...
According to the Periscope column of this week's Newsweek magazine Moynihan in under consideration for a 'four-hatted professorship," which would include all of these positions...