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...Halberstam seems to be in the process of inventing a sort of composite Kennedy man: Walt McNamara Rostow-Bundy. A man with "impeccable credentials" (the phrase occurs again and again) and the small withering smile that confirms them. A man less liberal than he might try to look. A superclerk, the "supreme mover of papers," possessed by "the belief that sheer intelligence and rationality could answer and solve anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hangover from Hubris | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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