Word: goode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ought to be the good guy around the world; yet we are the ones whose diplomats get attacked. Why is it that so much of such action is directed at the U.S. and so little at the Soviets...
SALT is in our mutual interest. It is neither an American favor to the Soviet Union nor a Soviet favor to the U.S. I hope that the Senate will eventually ratify SALT because SALT is needed whether American-Soviet relations are good or bad. I regret their actions because of the adverse impact they have had on SALT...
...many Senators-that now is not a time for the U.S. to be making deals with the Soviets. Now is a tune not for disarmament, but for rearmament. There is in this feeling a new manifestation of an old fallacy, the fallacy that SALT does the U.S.S.R. more good than the U.S., and that scuttling SALT will therefore do the Soviets more harm. As Henry Kissinger often said, SALT is not a reward for Soviet good behavior; treaties between adversaries can be more useful than treaties between friends; especially in periods of heightened tension between adversaries, treaties can be vital...
...self-interests. At any rate it must put together a tight, coherent and absolutely consistent body of principles that it rep resents and is willing to act upon. It may be that only by accepting their unpopularity will Americans have some hope of regaining the world's good opinion and respect...
...night of Compella's death, is retired at Sea Island, Ga., living gently off his pension and his wife's inheritance. His mind is free to pursue W.H. Auden and Thomas Love Peacock, but his soul, forged at West Point, still hears distant thunder. "Leadership is never good when it is self-conscious," he says. "The President should respond instinctively to events -but the instinct is really educated intellection, and it has to be harnessed to a natural appetite for decision...