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'''Walter Lippmann'''<ref> His name is often misspelled with only one 'N'.</ref>  (1889 - 1974), was an American journalist and commentator.  Starting as a socialist he moved steadily to the right throughout his career, and was a conservative critic of the [[New Deal]].  He was the most influential journalist in America from the 1920s to the 1960s because of his honesty and fairness, his forceful writing style, his relationship with major politicians, and - despite his changing views - his conservatism and belief in using the balance of power as a means for maintaining peace. Although he was a member of the inner cirlcle of the "establishment," he opposed every president from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. [[File:Lippman-Time.jpg|thumb|290px|''Time'' magazine Mar. 30, 1931 ''note the misspelling!''  [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741342,00.html read the cover story]]]

'''Walter Lippmann'''<ref> His name is often misspelled with only one 'N'--as for example the ''Time'' cover shown here.</ref>  (1889 - 1974), was an American journalist and commentator.  Starting as a socialist he moved steadily to the right throughout his career, and was a conservative critic of the [[New Deal]].  He was the most influential journalist in America from the 1920s to the 1960s because of his honesty and fairness, his forceful writing style, his relationship with major politicians, and - despite his changing views - his conservatism and belief in using the balance of power as a means for maintaining peace. Although he was a member of the inner cirlcle of the "establishment," he opposed every president from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. [[File:Lippman-Time.jpg|thumb|290px|''Time'' magazine Mar. 30, 1931[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741342,00.html read the cover story]]]

==Career==

==Career==

Lippmann attended Harvard College, where he studied with the leading philosophers of the day, including [[George Santayana]], [[William James]], and [[Graham Wallas]]. His first job was helping muckraker [[Lincoln Steffens]] on Everybody's  Magazine. He became active in the [[Socialist party]] and was one of the founding editors of ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine in 1913.   

Lippmann attended Harvard College, where he studied with the leading philosophers of the day, including [[George Santayana]], [[William James]], and [[Graham Wallas]]. His first job was helping muckraker [[Lincoln Steffens]] on ''Everybody's  Magazine''. He became active in the [[Socialist party]] and was one of the founding editors of ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine in 1913.   

He agreed with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] that the purpose of diplomacy was not to attempt the  impossible but to deal realistically with the existing balance of power. During World War I he was a staff assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and a special  adviser to [[Colonel House]], President [[Woodrow Wilson]]’s top foreign policy advisor.  Lippmann helped draft Wilson’s [[Fourteen Points]] in 1918, which became the basis for ending the war and restructuring world affairs at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919, where he was advisor to House. In the 1920s he was editor of the influential newspaper the ''New  York World'', and sharply criticized the foreign policy of Harding and Coolidge for ignoring the League of Nations.

He agreed with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] that the purpose of diplomacy was not to attempt the  impossible but to deal realistically with the existing balance of power. During World War I he was a staff assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and a special  adviser to [[Colonel House]], President [[Woodrow Wilson]]’s top foreign policy advisor.  Lippmann helped draft Wilson’s [[Fourteen Points]] in 1918, which became the basis for ending the war and restructuring world affairs at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919, where he was advisor to House. In the 1920s he was editor of the influential newspaper the ''New  York World'', and sharply criticized the foreign policy of Harding and Coolidge for ignoring the League of Nations.