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...RICHARD WHALEN 308 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...theory that he needed a youthful look to his 1968 campaign staff, Richard Nixon made a search for bright young conservatives. He found Richard Whalen, then 32, a bona fide conservative who had written what he called "Whiggish" editorials for the Wall Street Journal. He had also produced a literate, debunking biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, and an article in favor of a strong nuclear-defense policy for FORTUNE. Nixon courted him, even suggested that he become the candidate's "press man." Whalen accepted. The result, according to Whalen, was a classic encounter of the man of principle...
This book records Whalen's disillusionment. No dove, he wanted to end the Viet Nam War-the better to pursue the cold war on more favorable terrain. He wrote a speech for Nixon opposing Lyndon Johnson's escalation and calling for great-power negotiations to end the war. Nixon, says Whalen, almost delivered it. He confided to Whalen that he thought the war could not be won. But then Johnson dropped out of the race and Nixon figured that he did not need to take any dramatic stand on Viet Nam. Rejecting Whalen's speech, he adopted...
...more confidence in public than he has in private. Another batch of classified documents leaked to the press last week reveals that the CIA, the State Department and the Pentagon all cast serious doubt on current policies back in 1969. In a forthcoming book, Catch the Falling Flag, Richard Whalen, a former Nixon speechwriter, asserted that Nixon had had deeper misgivings about the war than most people knew. After learning of a pessimistic study of the war given to L.B.J., Nixon told advisers in March 1968: "There...
Ryan, the squad's leading scorer with 35 points, is the only defenseman of merit, and often is used as a wing. Juniors Dean Boylan, Don Craig and Steve Whalen skate the other regular turns, but they are frequently penalized. Among them, they have logged 156 minutes off the ice this winter, and Eli opponents have connected on power plays 27 per cent of the time...