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Dwight Macdonald, the bearded literary critic, was aghast at the barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed...
There was scant hope of dialectical deescalation. The New York Times's James Reston and other columnists helped keep the temperatures high. They accused Secretary of State Dean Rusk of having revived the dreaded specter of the "yellow peril" when he told a news conference two weeks ago that the U.S. was in Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college...
Outraged by the yellow-peril charge, Rusk went to the unusual length of issuing a formal statement to challenge the accusation. "The Secretary wholly repudiates the effort to put into his mouth or into his mind the notion of the yellow peril," the statement began. His comments on the looming threat of a nuclear-armed China, it added, "have nothing to do with race...
...ranging from steel to strawberries, from textiles to goat meat. If enacted, the bills would set limits on $12 billion worth, or 50%, of total U.S. imports. Liberalized-trade advocates compared the Orderly Trade Act proposal to the restrictive Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a rebuttal that skillfully invoked diplomacy and the dollar sign, pleaded with the Senate not to "retreat into protectionism...
...acre of every four of U.S. farmland grows food for export, and exports provide work for one out of every eight U.S. farmers. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall argued that oil import quotas should be less rigid in order to give the Government flexibility in maintaining the national security. Rusk cited some U.S. annual exports-$369 million worth of computers, $188 million worth of farm tractors (or 20% of total output), $371 million worth of fruits and vegetables. "Which of these sectors," asked he, "do you think is prepared to have a smaller market in exchange for insulating other sectors...