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...President John F. Kennedy. His advice, relayed through Edward Kennedy, Tunney's law-school roommate and close friend: drop the name Varick, by which Tunney had been called since childhood. The skeptical Tunney ran a poll: 66% of his potential constituents associated the name Varick with Russia and/or Communism. (In fact, it was the surname of a Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that, even his wife began calling him John. Finally, it took the Johnson landslide of 1964, and Tunney was in Congress. From that day to this, a lot of hard work in his district, a friendly gerrymandering...
...confirmed, a Southern strict constructionist on the Supreme Court." At a Navy League dinner in Manhattan, he fired an old-fashioned broadside at members of Congress who have become "viscerally antagonistic toward the whole defense complex." Said Agnew: "Deep down in their hearts is a feeling that international Communism is no longer really dangerous, at least not as dangerous as it used to be, so that America can safely dispense with expending major sums on modern armaments." It seemed a curious comment from a Vice President whose President has cut the U.S. defense budget, pursued strategic arms limitation talks with...
...foreign devils, Southeast Asia would be no Garden of Eden; its corruption is not an Occidental import brought in by missionaries and gunboats. The native pattern has found "browbeaten peasants" regularly caught between bandits and greedy oligarchies. Revolution, the "habit-forming" coup, has meant exchanging one tyrant for another. "Communism," says Bloodworth, is just "the devil the poor don't yet know...
Mirror Image. The play is not against Communism but against tyranny, a condition that subsumes all isms. Nonetheless, it is a fierce rebuke to all those shallow-thinking fantasts who believed, early and late, that the Russian Revolution heralded a new dawn for mankind, as epitomized by Lincoln Steffens who said, "I have been over into the future and it works." Solzhenitsyn shows that life in the Soviet Union has been precisely the reverse. It is the mirror image of that abysmal past from which man has been trying to free himself for thousands of years: the enslavement of mind...
...debate over Vietnam at home long ago became a debate over the morality and uses of power. Interventionists claimed the issue of Communism and Indochina was the decisive one. Opponents of intervention stressed the right of the Vietnamese to nationhood or to some kind of self determined political settlement. Very few tried to argue from strictly diplomatic criteria-to discover not what was in the interest of the free world or the Vietnamese people but what was in the interest of the United States...