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Although Cavett insists that his guests represent all political viewpoints, it is clear that most of the people on his show take a critical stance toward America. Last week, for instance, his guests included: Townsend H?opes, whose book. The Limits of Intervention, discusses the mistakes the government made which got us into Vietnam: Harvard's own George Wald and columnist Jimmy Breslin, both of whom have been outspoken (in different ways) about America's faults: and Jonathan Miller, one of whose topics was myths Americans have created about themselves. The only guest who came close to balancing...
...whatever reason, he deliberately appears unresponsive while he asks Townsend Hoopes questions about our foreign policy which he knows will encourage Hoopes to talk critically about the government. And he smiles continually while talking to Kevin Rhillips, whom he might despise...
...concept that bombing the North could end the war has been effectively questioned by Townsend Hoopes, Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 until last February. In his book The Limits of Intervention, he contends that U.S. bombing, which is geared to nuclear war, is surprisingly inadequate for interdiction strikes, "a fact shrouded in professional embarrassment." He claims that the Communist war effort in the South requires a volume of supplies so small compared with the North's capacity to deliver that it cannot be effectively shut off. Sealing off Haiphong, he also contends, would not have been...
...been done, when in fact they had no way of knowing for sure. Passed on to higher headquarters, summaries of misleading summaries contributed to the deepening U.S. military involvement in Viet Nam. As described in the current issue of the Atlantic by former Under Secretary of the Air Force Townsend Hoopes, Dean Acheson told Lyndon Johnson to his face that he had been consistently misinformed by "canned briefings" from the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Company chiefs like to test the thunks themselves. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend sometimes drives subordinates to distraction by slamming doors repeatedly in the ear-splitting confines of a testing garage. American Motors Chairman Roy Chapin likes to go into his company's executive parking area to try out the thunk. Ford has a jury of product-development specialists to pass judgment on thunks...