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Deep Recall. As in most press-fueled controversies, the facts were largely obscured by the furor. Last week's free-for-all started with an article in Look in which CBS Newsman Eric Sevareid described-as he had on TV last summer-a conversation that he had with Adlai Stevenson shortly before his death. In a section buried deep in the article, Sevareid recalled that Stevenson had talked of behind-the-scenes arrangements made by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in the early fall of 1964 to have a North Vietnamese emissary and a U.S. delegate open talks...
...Washington" had at first said such talks would have to wait until after the presidential election, but when U Thant tried again around the first of the year, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara "flatly opposed the attempt." U Thant was "furious," and "there can be no doubt," wrote Sevareid, "that Adlai Stevenson, who was working closely with U Thant in these attempts, was convinced that these opportunities should have been seized, whatever their ultimate result...
Rusk's Antenna. The essential facts of the story-minus Stevenson's posthumous opinions-were reported when they were first leaked to the press by U Thant early this year. Nonetheless, no sooner had Sevareid's piece appeared last week than reporters demanded more explicit details from the Administration. Secretary McNamara retorted angrily: "There is not one word of truth in the remarks made about me or the position attributed to me." White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers declined even to discuss the story, explaining: "I follow the President's advice of a long time...
MacLeish, Eric Sevareid, and Eleanor Roosevelt's first cousin and childhood friend, Mrs. Francis Cole...
...recent months Stevenson some times spoke of retiring. CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as having said only two days before his death that he wanted to quit: "For a while, I would just like to sit in the shade with a glass of wine in my hand and watch people dance." But before he accepted President Kennedy's offer to be Ambassador to the United Nations, Stevenson had indicated that he intended to stay with the job as long as he was wanted. "If I accept this appointment," he told a friend, "I am committed...