ABSTRACT
Waiter Lippmann had long been curious about Texas, and although he had known a good many Texas politicians in his time, had never seen them on their home ground. On February 14, 1962, Lippmann set off for a concentrated dose of Texas. Lippmann, having learned from the French and from returning American journalists that the war was going far worse than official reports indicated, was skeptical. During the twenty-six years from 1931, when Lippmann began writing his column, until 1957, when the riots over school integration in Little Rock became an international scandal, he devoted only ten columns to the segregation issue. The defeat of the filibuster and the enactment of the rights bill in June 1964 was for Lippmann, as for so many Americans, an educational process. Lippmann, who had once said it would be a good idea for the Republicans to run an archconservative and get it out of their system, was not pleased when it occurred.
