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Columnist WALTER LIPPMANN: AFTER all the official regrets and apologies have been received and accepted, the immediate question before us is how it happened that the Nixons were exposed to these outrages. It is manifest that the whole South American tour was misconceived, that it was planned by men who did not know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross...
...Sherman Adams, reaction was even more acute. Snapped the Republican New York Herald Tribune: "The President was on the right road-the high road. Adams was on the muddy one-the low road." Tut-tutted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "In the position he occupies and with the immunity which he claims, Mr. Adams should not make speeches at all." Growled House Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I see that the Republicans just about obliterated the Democratic Party . . . Does the White House think it can pass its program without Democratic votes?" But mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican...
...project arose from three high-level discussions held last year under the auspices of the cathedral and attended by such laymen as White House Economist Gabriel Hauge, Journalists Walter Lippmann and James Reston, Industrialist Paul Hoffman, and such clergymen as Washington's Episcopalian Bishop Angus Dun and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Behind closed doors, they discussed Christian responsibility in economics, international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer...
Columnist WALTER LIPPMANN...
...other hand, rallied almost unanimously behind the President, though they differed over the matter of the President's timing, dividing about equally between those who praised patience and those who complained that presidential procrastination was a catalyst for the Arkansas trouble. There were two notable exceptions. Walter Lippmann of the Herald Tribune Syndicate insisted that Ike had "made a weak case" in his TV speech to the nation because he omitted the chronology of Faubus' folly. "It is necessary to say also," chided Lippmann, "that during this grave business he ought not to be away from Washington...