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Hero's Style. Only once in the past have the First District's Negroes-43% of the population-challenged the chairman. Rivers trounced their 1950 candidate, a Negro attorney, in that year's Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination...
In any event, the Vice President reported, his recent visit to South Viet Nam left him convinced that the allies are making "substantial progress." Said he: "Things are better in Viet Nam, militarily, than even a few months ago. Though we must be prepared for military setbacks and disappointments ahead...
Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote scornfully of the Johnson Administration's policy of increasing ground troops in Viet Nam: "The bitter truth is that we can search the globe and look in vain for true and active supporters of our policy." Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse claimed that...
Sir: What bitter irony. L.B.J. finally is doing in Viet Nam exactly what a "trigger-happy warmonger" named Barry Goldwater advocated three years ago. In his heart, Lyndon knows Barry was right.
Sir: Prior to November, anyone who advocated bombing North Viet Nam was labeled "impulsive," "trigger-happy," "living in the 18th century," or "warmonger"; now it's called statesmanship.