Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
Early Warnings. After the war, Maggie moved to Washington, D.C., where she gave up the grind of daily reporting for the more leisurely life of a roving reporter and pundit. She lived in an elegant town house with her husband, Lieut. General William Hall (her first marriage to Philosophy Professor Stanley Moore ended in divorce in 1948), raised two children and cultivated an impressive list of sources. In 1963, she left the Trib to become a columnist for Newsday. She knew how to take a cool, levelheaded look at world affairs, and she disdained those commentators who were addicted...
...Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote scornfully of the Johnson Administration's policy of increasing ground troops in Viet Nam: "The bitter truth is that we can search the globe and look in vain for true and active supporters of our policy." Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse claimed that Johnson's Viet Nam policy was "not a consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger...
...dissenters-backed by such respectable citizens as the editorialists of the New York Times and Senior Pundit Walter Lippmann-almost made it sound as if they spoke for the majority of Americans. No such thing: the latest Gallup poll showed that for every two citizens who want the U.S. to get out of Viet Nam, three favor its present policy there or want to escalate the war further; that 76% support U.S. military intervention in the Dominican Republic. Still, the decibel count of criticism is high, and Johnson is supersensitive to any sort of criticism. He therefore gave Bundy...