Echo House
Echo House
“Camelot BY THE AUTUMN of 1962 Washington was no longer just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento. Instead, it was fabulous—though not yet fabulous on the scale Constance had envisioned, maritime Venice at the end of the fifteenth century or brainy Vienna on the eve of World War One. Any nation's golden age was most vivid at the moment of irreversible political decline, and in late 1962 Washington was at its most muscular and confident. The Russians had been humiliated in Cuba, and the young President was now seen not as a novice out of his depth but as a statesman of charm, subtlety, integrity, and tact. In private moments he spoke alarmingly of a long twilight struggle with the Bolsheviks; but that was seen not as evidence of pessimism or exhaustion but of an attractive worldliness, a newly mature American statecraft on the model of Whitehall or the Quai d'Orsay. Certainly there was no evidence of decline; quite the reverse. In such fine weather no one would thi...nk to listen for the scrape of the keel on the shoals.MoreLess
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