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...betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith were dispatched as ambassadors to Japan and India. "Pragmatic" intellectuals like Economist Walt Rostow and the Bundy brothers, McGeorge and William, helped to formulate the war's policies and rationale. As they did so, the schism in the intellectual community widened...
...associations, professions and life styles. Though German Jewish, Walter Lippmann is still a Waspirant. His clubs (Metropolitan, Cosmos, River) and his influence on opinion give him undeniable Wasp power. Wall Street Dynasts John Schiff and John Loeb may qualify, if they want, as honorary Wasps. So may Walt Whitman Rostow, who has been a top aide of Lyndon Johnson and beats most Wasps at tennis...
...Walt Rostow was denied his old position on the faculty at M.I.T. and is consequently going to the University of Texas. This was clearly a case of political considerations influencing an academic appointment, as M.I.T.'s excuse that it had no field of economics and history was patently false. Nevertheless no students protested (in fact, they would have probably protested if Rostow had been appointed). If it were Staughton Lynd who was being discriminated against for political reasons students would have protested this infringement of academic freedom. This is hypocrisy only if you believe that people should defend abstract principle...
There is no such imperative. Principles have to be applied in real situations. Rostow is a bad man and one should not have compunctions about making an exception to a generally valid principle in his case. Which is not to say that students would necessarily take to the streets every time someone who had spent time in Washington proposed to return. If Kissinger makes another Vietnam, students will presumably protest his re-appointment to Harvard. One has to wait and see what happens each time. No unconditional guarantee of principle can be assumed...
Johnson, who entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a temperature of 101.6, was one of many notables felled by the virus. Others: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Mamie Eisenhower, Senator Edmund Muskie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, and White House National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. Mayors seemed susceptible; Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and Boston's Kevin White joined Daley on the sick list...