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...Avenue in a stream of horse-drawn carriages. Inside, men stood and cheered as Adelina Patti sang Home Sweet Home, followed up with the Swiss Echo Song as an encore. President Benjamin Harrison, seated in a special box at the side of the stage, leaned toward Vice President Levi Morton and murmured, "New York surrenders, eh?" So it seemed that night in the magnificent hall, proudly proclaimed on the program to be "the Parnassus of modern civilization...
YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945: FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, traces the last term in office of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and the birth of the "Morgenthau Plan" for conquered Germany, which cost the crusty hawk his Cabinet post...
...possibilities for button makers and punsters are limitless. Romney? How about DUZ DID IT? Morton? Easy -THE SALT OF THE EARTH. Hatfield? THE REAL MCCOY. The Governor of Colorado? ALL FOR LOVE. Percy? MERCY! Or Ford? LORD! Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, an all-out hawk who has announced his interest in running, could campaign under the banner, BOMBS AWAY WITH CURT LEMAY...
...Viet Nam debate in months. He began, as he almost always does, in a barely audible rumble, praising the 30 nations that are helping in Viet Nam, reminding his fellow Senators that their dissent gives American G.I.s the feeling that they are "forgotten men." Without naming him, he rebuked Morton for remarking that the President had been "brainwashed" into seeking a solely military solution to the war. "It don't sound good and it don't look good," said Dirksen in his best folk-sy-Ev vein. "You do not demean the ruler. The President...
Kuchel's speech probably changed no minds; few speeches on Viet Nam ever do. But it did prompt Morton and Cooper to "clarify" their own demands for a bombing halt by explaining that they would not approve of such a step if it left U.S. servicemen in jeopardy...