Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Lippmann (writing of the expected interregnum): "The course of events cannot be halted for three months until Mr. Dewey is inaugurated...
...breakfast its readers heard on their radios that Truman was winning -and on Malcolm W. Bingay's editorial page, they read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred to "President-elect" Dewey and was full of such heads as "New Regime Must Shape Trade Policy...
...trumpets last week for Cooper of Kentucky, Rizley of Oklahoma, Ball of Minnesota. On previous occasions he has electioneered for Pat Hurley in New Mexico, Curly Brooks in Illinois, Edward Robertson in Wyoming, George Wilson in Iowa. But he was in an odd and disconcerting predicament. As Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out: "In most if not all of these uncertain states the Democratic candidates are not only more attractive to independent and progressive voters but are, on the great issues, much closer to Governor Dewey and more likely to support him ... In order to keep Senator Vandenberg as chairman...
Friends of Harry Truman, Lippmann recalled, resented preconvention complaints that Mr. Truman was not equal to the presidency of the U.S. "A complaint of that kind is almost impossible to prove," observed Lippmann, "as long as the President remains in Washington within the majestic structure of his office . . . But now the country has Mr. Truman's own estimate of how necessary it is for him to exercise the functions of the presidency...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...