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...that he was human. He undervalued F.D.R.'s abilities and failed to take Hitler very seriously until 1939. In September 1941, calling the U.S. Army a "definite inconvenience," he urged a reduction in the armed forces and a step-up of economic aid to England and Russia. Harry Truman's upset victory in 1948 forced Lippmann to begin his next column with the pained and decidedly un-Delphic admission: "As one who did not foresee the result of the election...
Presidents coveted Lippmann's approval and usually felt obliged to respond to his criticism. Both F.D.R. and Truman lashed out bitterly when Lippmann opposed them. John F. Kennedy and his advisers invited Lippmann's advice and political imprimatur. But when a Lippmann column scolded J.F.K.'s policies, the President fumed and asked intimates why he should bother reading press criticisms of his actions. "Well," he answered himself, "it's still Walter Lippmann...
...buttress a view that most experts - ranging from his own in the White House to even those in the automobile industry who will be hurt by such an increase - now believe is wrong. A President who simply followed public sentiment would be a cipher in the office, as Harry Truman recognized: "It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts. It is right and wrong, and leadership...
History in part seems to bear him out. Harry Truman made his great decisions in world affairs. Dwight Eisenhower let the country run itself and satisfy those appetites that had been pinched by World War II. John Kennedy made no bones about his love of the international chess game; he spent most of his presidential time playing it. Lyndon Johnson dealt with the race problem and did bring about a basic shift in law and attitude. Finally, he was consumed by the Viet...
...terminal equipment, telephones, satellites, mobile telephones, microwave facilities and data-transmission gear. But the trustbusters' chances of forcing Bell to give up Western Electric are uncertain. They did not succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Ike's Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, offered what the AT&T man described as a "friendly...