Politics
The Secretary of Defense
To Defense Secretary McNamara the overriding fact of life is the existence of nuclear weapons and he is realistic about them. This April, McNamara caused a furor in Washington by remarking, off the record, that the US was not pledged not to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam--He then had to go on the record to say this: "I think it's perfectly apparent there's no military requirement for the use of nuclear weapons in the current situation. READ MORE >>
Why We Need Medicare
The Essential Sargent Shriver
Sargent Shriver chose the Farmers Union convention in St. Paul as the stage from which to blow his first bugle in the war against poverty. READ MORE >>
The Night Barry Goldwater Lost
The Hill Country of Lyndon Johnson
West of Austin and north of San Antonio is a small pocket of Texas, once drenched with the blood of dissenters. It isn’t the enlightened North, or the old South, or the new West. It’s the Texas Hill Country of Lyndon Baines Johnson. READ MORE >>
Boy, Don't You Know I'm on Camera?
The definitive comment on Dallas will always belong to Art Buchwald, the social historian, on an evening when he was condemned to one of those television panels that were a peculiarly disgusting consequence of the events there last November. It was, the moderator said, so unfair to single out Dallas. "Why," he asked, turning to Buchwald for comfort, "does everyone keep blaming Dallas for this? It could have happened in any other city in the United States." READ MORE >>
George Romney Gone Bust
Rebellion in the Air Force?
The Air Force's ruling hierarchy is in open defiance of its Constitutional Commander-in-Chief, and in some ways the situation bears a growing resemblance to the fictional story-line of last year's best-seller Seven Days in May, the account of a nearly successful military coup by an Air Force general in protest against a nuclear arms treaty just concluded with the Russians. Not that I think a "putsch" is in the offing. READ MORE >>
The Queen and I
Some three years ago I wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post on the English Monarchy. It aroused, at the time, a good deal of controversy and abuse, and even now I am occasionally asked whether I think Princess Margaret ought to have married Group Captain Townsend, or whether the Duke of Edinburgh is a good husband, as though I were some kind of expert on such questions. This is far from being the case. My knowledge of the Royal family is confined to what appears about them in newspapers and magazines. READ MORE >>
Setting Up the Scapegoat Who Will Be Blamed for Cuba?
For nearly 20 months a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has been holding hearings, ostensibly on "the Communist threat to the United States through the Caribbean," presided over by James O. Eastland of Mississippi. He is assisted by Senators Dodd, Johnston of South Carolina, McClellan, Ervin, Hruska, Dirksen, Keating and Cotton. How many witnesses have been called has not been disclosed. The testimony of only a few has been released, and that has been edited before publication. READ MORE >>
