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...foreign policy, and he expects the Germans [Ehrlichman and Haldeman] to keep people away from him so he can do it. He expects Cabinet members to run their departments and leave him alone. He'll step in there when something gets big−environment, for instance, or the hunger problem. But he doesn't want to be bothered...
...elimination of poverty, hunger and deprivation and the achievement of equal opportunity in every aspect of American life...
JACKSON: Hunger in this nation should be made illegal. War should not justify starvation nor surplus economy. That's like having too much food on your table, and some people sit at the table starving. At least if I go into the Army I can get some food and I can get to travel. So, the only explanation for a surplus economy having starving masses is that the Defense Department makes the decisions to keep some of the masses starving so as to keep their anxiety level high...
...Panther Party's free breakfast program for children and its attack on hunger is very significantly related to where we're going. There are 15 million people in this country who are hungry, and this is a documented fact, and 50 per cent of them are black, and when you move in this fashion, you talk about a broad political scope, not only free breakfasts every morning, free lunches in the schools every day, you start taking care of the children, because they are the ones who will sustain the struggle. We were talking about free health clinics in another...
...that the hopes which keep people living are also those which make them miserable. Ambition is fugitive, love is usually for the wrong things-usually only self-love-and the complacence which can come from believing you understand your vanity, is most harmful. Johnson writes of the treachery and hunger of the human heart and imagination: the need for hope, and the folly of self-deceptions which languish life away in the gloom of anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject...