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...Harvard Archives have preserved only a few of these speeches, but from the few which remain, their themes are easily recognizable. In 1940, a time when most Americans were still enjoying the liberties of post-World War I isolation one-and-a-half years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tudor Gardiner spoke about the dangers of peacetime, and American security...
...think it's going to be as unpopular as the President says. He's in line with the underlying thinking of the people. The country wants leadership." Democratic Congressman Morris Udall likened some of the protest to imaginary congressional reaction on the day after Pearl Harbor: "You interviewed the Congressman from Detroit and he said, 'The Japanese attack was outrageous, but before we rush into war, let's see how it would affect the automobile industry.' And then somebody else said, 'It was dastardly, but consider the effect on oil,' and another Congressman said, 'War could be very serious...
Finally, what are the implications for the technological society? Carter likened the present need for energy conservation to earlier shifts from burning wood to coal, then later from coal to oil and natural gas. Columbia University Historian Henry Graff sees the current crisis more grandly, calling it "the Pearl Harbor of the Industrial Revolution." He is not certain that Americans, more than people anywhere else, are ready to meet the challenge. "Heroic periods are easier to read about than to live through," he notes...
...hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still tied up in Boston, while the Snechkus was heading back to sea-but only after surrendering its 16 tons of frozen river herring as evidence...
...ketch. Says he: "I've found other places and other sources just traveling around the Caribbean. There are a lot of incredible characters down there, as migratory and as gypsy-souled as I am." Buffett petitioned the Cuban government for permission to sail into Havana harbor. It was denied, but he plans to try again...