Word: dame
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Earlier, the President chose the University of Notre Dame to deliver a ringing, detailed statement of his emerging foreign policy. Awarded an honorary J.D. (for Jurum Doctor, or Doctor of Laws) Carter turned to Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. and praised him for speaking "more consistently and effectively in support of the rights of human beings than any American I know...
Carter's Notre Dame declaration did not embody a fundamental reorientation of U.S. foreign policy, but instead summed up a shift in approach and emphasis, especially in areas like human rights, cooperation among the industrial democracies, North-South relations, Africa, nuclear proliferation. The President put his stress on promoting democracy and justice, not on seeking a strategic balance among world powers. Under Kissinger, regional conflicts were seen as significant mainly as they affected the rivalry between Moscow and Washington. As National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told TIME after the speech, Carter was saying that "we need a wider...
...being. Nor, likely, would the capacity of European nations for cooperation today ever have blossomed. The ideas that Marshall set forth are, in fact, still making history. At least an echo of his spirit of innovation could be heard last week in President Carter's promise at Notre Dame to "create a wider framework of international cooperation suited to the new historical circumstances...
...another one of those improbable scenes that are becoming a kind of trademark of the Carter Administration. Jimmy Carter was at Notre Dame's commencement last week to receive an honorary degree, and so was Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. When Burns' name was called, Carter did more than just join in the general applause, as he had for the others. He got up and walked to the podium with the patrician boss of the Fed. There, grinning broadly, the populist Chief Executive pointedly shook hands with the rock-ribbed Republican central banker and, clasping his shoulder...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh, S.T.D., president of Notre Dame...