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...just after 1 a.m. when the phone shrilled at Lyndon Johnson's White House bedside. Drowsily the President lifted the receiver. An instant later, he was wide awake. At the other end of the line was National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow with the news that Hanoi was at last prepared to end the month-long dispute over a site for talks on the Viet Nam war. By way of the diplomatic "mail drop" that the U.S. and North Viet Nam have been using in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, Hanoi notified Washington that it would send representatives to Paris...
...C1001 readings. After sealing the letter I realize that my conception of the philosophy of law comes not so much from Rousseau as from Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. I remember his saying that you should decide what you think is right and then go ahead and do it. Walt Disney really bagged that one; the old fascist inadvertently created a whole generation of radicals...
...Walt Disney died on Dec. 15, 1966, at the age of 65; yet it is difficult to think of him as being dead. Much of this has to do with the ubiquitous enterprises that, under Brother Roy Disney, continue to spread the name.* On a more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention...
...Last year, according to Walt Disney Productions, 240 million people throughout the world saw a Disney movie, 100 million watched a Disney TV show every week, 800 million read a Disney book or magazine, 50 million heard Disney music, 150 million read a Disney comic strip, and 7,900,000 visited Disneyland...
Secondly, the willingness of Senator Kennedy '48, to accept support from Robert McNamara indicates, to put it mildly, that he does not understand the basis of opposition to American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam is not the result of the demonic malevolence of Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow (all, incidentally, selected by John F. Kennedy '40), but follows quite directly from the policies pursued by the first Kennedy Administration. There is no confidence that a new Kennedy Administration would not feature the return to office of many men, of whom McNamara is only one, whose views...