Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among Washington's younger political columnists, few might have been expected to cheer more loudly for the Kennedy Administration than balding William V. Shannon, 33, pundit-in-residence for the liberal New York Post...
Deep-toned ex-TV Pundit Edward R. Murrow, the new boss of USIA, has already begun to make his presence felt. Staffers departing for the evening now somberly bid each other a Humurrowesque "Good night-and good luck...
...anxious glances at the entrance, hoping for the arrival of Jack Kennedy. He did not show-but Brother Bobby and his wife Ethel saved the day. Hour after hour, top names turned up at parties given by other top names. Kennedy looked in on a dinner for Harry Truman; Pundit Walter Lippmann gave a cocktail party for some seven score luminaries in arts and science ("nobody below the rank of Nobel prizewinner"); Eleanor Roosevelt and former New York Senator Herbert Lehman tirelessly made the rounds...
...retiring President deserved "accolades as one of the most brilliant or imaginative of Presidents," but did not question his charm: "Few men in the decades of the republic have so captured the hearts, the trust and the faith of the people." The New York Times's senior pundit, Arthur Krock, took a balanced look back across the Eisenhower years and nodded qualified approval: "Whatever the flaws and errors of his rec ord, however much he could have bettered the great contemporary benefits it bestowed, lasting benefits they were...
Political Pundit Walter Lippmann, 71, an unqualified admirer of the new President (and favored with a private home visit by Jack Kennedy after the election), thought it was all plain as can be: Bobby "was named because he had been the successful manager of the campaign. It would have been unprecedented if Robert Kennedy had been excluded from the Cabinet because he is the President's brother." The New York Times, while ponderously disapproving, scarcely mentioned the family connection: "Let us willingly grant that Robert Kennedy is tough, able, alert, hard-hitting and single-mindedly devoted to his older...