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...said that Nixon undertook he detente in a "particularly American way--naively and enthusiastically." Buckley's remarks came hours after scientists from the People's Republic of China had departed from a three- day tour of Harvard...
Last night's talk came after a one-hour delay during which Currier House residents scrambled to assemble a make-shift public address system to cover the overflow crowd. Reading from a prepared text Buckley quickly smoothed the impatient audience with a anecdotes of his trip to China...
...Buckley said the United States had shown for the first time a willingness to grant totalitarian systems moral parity with Wilsonian democracy. The change may have augured the end of "the Wilsonian idea" in this country, which prescribes limits to state intervention in the lives of citizens, he said...
Asked if the United States should have continued to ostracize China instead, Buckley replied, "No, I was trying to suggest that the Chinese leaders have not earned our admiration...
...talk ended in a more serious tone. "A resolution has diminished to make the sacrifices to remain free." Buckley said of the China trip. He cited a 1960 poll of Yale undergraduates which showed that 75 per cent believed the U.S. should defend itself even at the risk of nuclear war. Ten years later, he said, only 40 per cent made the name reply...