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...Kennedy interview, shown on CBS-TV on Labor Day evening, brought some startled reactions. Commented the New York Times's James Reston: The President "both threatened and reassured Diem. He said: Change, or we'll string along with you anyway. Now if Diem changes his policies and his government, it will be said that he did so under public pressure from the U.S.; and if he doesn't change, the President will be charged with backing what he himself has called a losing policy...
...reaction was far less critical than that of the clergy. Many of the nation's newspaper editors seemed to agree with the New York Herald Tribune, which declared: "Governor Rockefeller's remarriage has no relevance to his qualifications for high government office." New York Times Columnist James Reston, however, argued that "newspapers are not a very reliable guide to the true feelings of the people." Wrote he: "The presidency is a model standing at the pinnacle of the nation's life. What others may do, he may not always or even ever do, but what he does...
...neither of these cases did he propose any concrete changes in United States policy; he merely hinted that the Kennedy Administration might be appeasing the Communists. The Governor's use of implication and innuendo hardly constitutes "leadership of purpose, candidly expressed." As James Reston has pointed out, Rockefeller is beginning to talk like Harold Stassen and act like Richard Nixon...
Press: Walter Lippmann, Roy Howard, James Reston, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Samuel I. Newhouse, John Cowles, Al Capp, Hedda Hopper, George Gallup...
...last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists to the campus for Doctorates of Humane Letters: Alu nus Herbert Brucker ('24), Hartford Courant editor, newest president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill; and New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston...