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...President squared his shoulders, took a deep breath, and made it clear that he had discarded the Truman Administration's concept of "the year of maximum exposure."* He had always insisted, he said, that for anybody on the defensive, strategically or tactically, to base his defense on his ability to predict the exact date of attack is crazy. It just didn't make sense to build up to a peak a definite number of years away-ten, twenty or one. On the defensive, we have to reach a level of defense that we can support, not build...
...gone past the third grade knows the phrase, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He may ascribe it variously to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Emancipation Proclamation, but he knows vaguely that it is a significant phrase. Professor Jones agrees that the single concept of "the pursuit or happiness" is a very important one in American intellectual history, and he has written this book to explain its origin and significance. The result is a fascinating amalgam of constitutional law, political theory, literary analysis, and popular psychology, embracing topics as obscure as the citizen's constitutional right...
...conflict between group happiness and individual freedom brought on by the New Deal would have been a meaty subject for discussion. Another valuable vein to work would have been changes in popular definitions of happiness, something the author only hints at when he notes that the present concept "completely reverses the traditional American belief that there is discomfort in idleness, solid satisfaction in industry." And many would dispute this application of the Calvinist ethic of work as a good per so to the whole nation. The tradition of leisure has been especially strong in the South, was always present...
Walsh argues free will to students who see evil dominant on earth or who abhor the concept of Hell, answering that God gave Man freedom, a freedom which has no meaning unless Man may choose the path of damnation as well as that of righteousness. Finally, though he pronounces Genesis allegory, he defends the "credentials" of the Scriptures...
...last seven years, the keystone of American foreign policy has been the idea of peace through strength. Although realizing that the concept has been fruitless in the past, policy strategists of both parties have thought it necessary to so prepare the West as to render impotent any new Communist aggression. From such a situation of strength, peace could then be negotiated...