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...accords were based on the premise that the U.S. would "provide adequate economic and military assistance to South Viet Nam." More vaguely, he said that another assumption was that "if necessary, the U.S. would help sustain the terms of the Paris accords." Ford claimed that there was a "universal consensus" in the U.S. behind "adequate material support" to South Viet Nam, ignoring the fact that the Democratic Party platform of 1972, at least, had called for an end to such military...
...rituals in the midst of an efficient, mechanized, industrial state as a hopeful example for the rest of the world. Such things as bowing, exchanging name cards and sipping tea in elaborate corporate reception rooms have "the importance of ceremony as art in keeping a civilization together." Adds Gibney: "Consensus and collectiveness are more than a virtue. They have al most the quality of religion...
...rhetoric of the Bicentennial serves quite a different purpose for this country's government than it did for Ho Chi Minh. Instead of glorifying a new struggle, it serves to parody an old one, with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall...
Nozick's book comes at a crucial time. America's welfare warfare state mixed economy is failing. No economy can long withstand rapidly alternating runaway inflation and depression, let alone both together. With the present situation intolerable, a consensus is developing that change in needed. But there is no consensus on what we should be changing...
Ford's indecision soon became apparent. He sympathized with the advice that seeking scapegoats would undermine his desire to rebuild a national consensus on foreign policy. He has bridled at the common belief that his Secretary of State runs U.S. foreign policy, and he has been concerned about Kissinger's often pessimistic moods and ample...