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Last week, as the 87th Congress convened and inauguration neared, the pundits, got out their batons to begin the job of conducting the Administration. Walter Lippmann, who during the campaign had frothed with impatience to reach the New Frontier, now, on arrival, thought it best to make haste slowly. "One good New Year's resolution." wrote he, "is to recognize that both at home and abroad the new Administration will need time to get organized. The Kennedy Administration does not have to improvise and to proceed breathlessly to do things. It needs to deliberate carefully, to plan thoroughly...
...reds from Harvard would take a whole page here: There is W. E. B. DuBois, the current darling of the Kremlin; Harry F. Ward, Harvard '58; Felix Frankfurter, Harvard '06, who today is a Supreme Court Justice and who was dubbed by Teddy Roosevelt a Trotskyite red; Walter Lippmann '10; Roger N. Baldwin '05; Stuart Chase '10; Bertrand Russell, who taught his Fabianism at Harvard; Harold Laski and John Reed '10, studied there before they left for Moscow; and Lauchlin Currie, Allen Rosenberg, and Irving Schiller. The over-all foe for all these and so many others was capitalism...
Political Pundit Walter Lippmann, 71, an unqualified admirer of the new President (and favored with a private home visit by Jack Kennedy after the election), thought it was all plain as can be: Bobby "was named because he had been the successful manager of the campaign. It would have been unprecedented if Robert Kennedy had been excluded from the Cabinet because he is the President's brother." The New York Times, while ponderously disapproving, scarcely mentioned the family connection: "Let us willingly grant that Robert Kennedy is tough, able, alert, hard-hitting and single-mindedly devoted to his older...
...Kennedy provided ample evidence of becoming the best hide-and-seek player the presidency has ever had. One afternoon, after a quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to the suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack had slipped away to visit friends. The following afternoon, with the connivance...
...better at secret decisions than, say, the historian in the street, whose discipline is also constantly undergoing revision. Probably neither would do well as a politician. Only Snow's immense common sense keeps him from sounding like the post-World War I expert-ists such as Veblen and Walter Lippmann...