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Ned’s father, Edward M. Lamont, Sr. ’48, is an economist who helped administer the Marshall Plan and worked in Richard Nixon??s Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...general political analysis presented by the specter of Dulles’ stolidity and Nixon??s serpentine behavior, Eisenhower, despite his illness, appears a most creative leader. This appears in his proposals for the segregation problem—moderate but forceful action and the establishment of biracial commissions. Eisenhower’s stands, both foreign and domestic (with the exception of the farm bill), have been forthright and sensible. In light of his own worth and the incompetence of his immediate subordinates, the President’s recurring illness is most distressing to a comparatively leaderless nation...
...Obviously, he now supports the Eisenhower legislative program, but it is virtually impossible to point to a single substantive policy in the past three years that has been his own. The combined lack of creative leadership and of consistent political principle make Nixon??s opportunism dangerous to Eisenhower Republicanism and to the nation.... Eisenhower’s statesmanship has been the kind that can unify a nation, Nixon??s antics are intensely partisan. Eisenhower’s policy has been generally liberal; Nixon??s real policy is totally elusive. As a quick-change artist...
...national prominence as an attorney for the New York Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to block the Gray Lady from printing a classified report on the Vietnam War. The Times won the case—in part, according to Abrams, because Nixon??s lawyer, Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, performed “lamely” in front of the Supreme Court. (Griswold, a former Harvard Law School dean, will go down in the history books for being on the wrong side of the high court?...
Morrow spends 57 pages on Nixon??s year, versus 18 on Kennedy’s and only seven on Johnson’s. This clear imbalance contributes to the lack of fulfillment when the book ends. The title titillated with promise, but Morrow’s account—while intriguing—all too often veers off track. To stretch a metaphor as shamelessly as Morrow: U.S. basketball fans were disappointed when the Olympic team came home with the bronze, but—as is the case here—even the let-down...