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Walter Lippmann
Program Video Clip List
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End Time |
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| 1 |
00:13.3 |
02:38.6 |
Setting in downtown Washington, DC; introduction to Walter Lippmann, a foreign affairs columnist who dominated the field of journalism in his time
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| 2 |
02:38.7 |
03:55.7 |
The Metropolitan Club; Lippmann's influence with presidents |
| 3 |
04:09.5 |
05:56.2 |
Clip from 1960 interview Lippmann gave to CBS describes Lippmann's stature; some about anti-semitism |
| 4 |
05:56.3 |
06:43.2 |
Lippmann as an intellectual journalist |
| 5 |
06:55.6 |
07:33.8 |
His column "Today and Tomorrow," history of publication/circulation |
| 6 |
07:33.9 |
09:32.9 |
Relationship with Truman, Stevenson, Eisenhower and LBJ (Vietnam)
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| 7 |
09:33.0 |
11:06.9 |
How Bradlee knew Lippmann; the Lippmans' vacations in Maine; how his travels impacted his columns |
| 8 |
18:26.5 |
20:16.3 |
Containment theory; George Kenan |
| 9 |
21:35.6 |
23:08.9 |
Worked for a socialist mayor; significance of early and later politlical beliefs
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| 10 |
23:23.3 |
23:54.5 |
The Cold War-how it began and ended |
| 11 |
26:58.3 |
28:44.0 |
History of the Metropolitan Club; started during the Civil War; women allowed to join in 1989 |
| 12 |
28:44.0 |
30:08.3 |
"Rules" at the Metropolitan Club; costs to belong |
| 13 |
32:53.1 |
35.12.0 |
Clip from National Press Club speech about being "opinionated"; Richard Nixon in the audience |
| 14 |
36:40.1 |
38:88.6 |
Lippman's sophisticated upbringing; chose journalism over philosophy or an academic career; significance of Socialist involvement; hard to pin Lippmann's politics down |
| 15 |
40:06.1 |
43:07.9 |
His use of the phrase "The Cold War"; Lippman's first reaction to Kenan's "Containment Doctrine"; concerns about U.S. approach to communism
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| 16 |
44:20.6 |
47:49.9 |
Involvement in crafting Senator Vandenburg's response to the Marshall Plan as an example of his involvement in politics; he was not dispassionate observer |
| 17 |
47:50.2 |
50:59.5 |
Isolationist tendencies in the 30's; criticism of Hitler; shock of Munich settlement in 1938; turned Lippmann against his belief that the U.S. could remain detached
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| 18 |
55:55.1 |
57:22.5 |
Lippmann and religion |
| 19 |
57:49.2 |
1:00:21 |
Clip of Lippmann in 1965 at the United Nations
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| 20 |
1:06:50 |
1:08:35 |
Influence and "elitism"
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| 21 |
1:08:36 |
1:09:07 |
A look at an issue of Newsweek from 1965 and Lippmann's column on Johnson's "Great Society" |
| 22 |
1:10:33 |
1:12:39 |
Influence of George Santanya
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| 23 |
1:12:40 |
1:14:26 |
Where he wrote his columns; in his office on the second floor of his house; UPI ticker; significance of foreign news in his era
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| 24 |
1:16:00 |
1:17:51 |
Supporter of the United Nations, but not the League of Nations |
| 25 |
1:21:17 |
1:23:30 |
Lippmann's thoughts on the responsibility of citizens in a democracy; his role in informing a wide public; recognized that public opinion is often influenced by emotion
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| 26 |
1:25:09 |
1:30:11 |
LBJ on 12/1/63 asking to come by Lippmann's place for a drink; Lippman's style versus Johnson's |
| 27 |
1:30:12 |
1:31:15 |
Lippmann on Kennedy
| 28 |
1:31:15 |
1:34:14 |
Public Opinoin and his experience as a propagandist; applied his knowledge to journalism, and theorized about its impact on public opinion; concerned with keeping the flow of information "clean"
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| 29 |
1:34:15 |
1:37:17 |
Tour of the Grill (for members only) in the Metropolitan Club and a table, built in 1917; place where the Wilson administration would have lunch; then it became a "club" table for twelve, including Walter Lippmann; they understood that what they said there was treated "respectfully" |
| 30 |
1:37:18 |
1:39:21 |
The professional influence Lippmann had on Ben Bradlee (changed his byline; recommended him as a Washington Post editor) |
| 31 |
1:42:40? |
1:43:45 |
Journalists on television; clip of Lippmann |
| 32 |
1:43:46 |
1:49:10 |
His marriages; he left his first wife for his second |
| 33 |
1:49:11 |
1:51:04 |
What he might of thought of the scandals of today's presidencies |
| 34 |
1:51:05 |
1:53:34 |
Dewey, more on Public Opinion; The role of leaders and the public; dilemmas of democracy
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| 35 |
1:53:48 |
1:55:14 |
1968 article about the presidential race and RFK unlikely to run; Lippmann was not an expert on "back room" politics |
| 36 |
1:56:30 |
1:57:35 |
Lippmann on Mencken; didn't like personal fights |
| 37 |
1:57:50 |
2:00:20 |
John Reed, also from Harvard, announced Lippmann as a "future president"; their work together; Reed is buried in Kremlin |
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