during which Kennedy briefed Soviet Ambassador Charles "Chip" Bohlen, while the journalists present reported mostly favorably.

At the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, the group partially disintegrated due to internal divisions. The Vietnam War divided the community: some, such as Alsop, remained staunch supporters of the war, which discredited them in the public eye. In fact, in 1974, in the wake of the Vietnam decline, Alsop's column in the ''Herald Tribune''