Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...puff of peace-pipe smoke, while the crazies and burners and the would-be revolutionaries must not get even a burnt match. The solid core of loyalists, still the majority, still Nixon's mainstay of the moment and hope for the future, must not be offended in the process. Finally, Hanoi must not get the impression that Nixon is politically crippled like Lyndon Johnson...
...neglect government. We scorn politics. No wonder we're in trouble! It is not just our young people who must recognize the value of the political process. Citizens generally should give far more attention to every phase of that process. Some should run for office. Some should engage in lobbying. Some should give money and time. Others should undertake to influence public opinion. It is precisely to the political process that we must turn to end the war in Southeast Asia...
...very start of the information-gathering process, there are inevitable limits. The subjectivity of intelligence agents can easily lead them to ask different questions and thus get differing answers from what is before them, whether the subject is a Viet Cong prisoner or a pile of captured documents. Hilsman argues that the intelligence pipeline is further bent because even good data gathered in the field pass through many channels before arriving at their destination. If the information was not digested, of course, it would be unmanageable. So at each step, it is scrutinized, reinterpreted, perhaps expanded, more often cut down...
...people are over satisfied with the Harvard freshman class, but this year criticism of the selection process has often taken on a political tone...
...ongoing mandates for action. Our inability to enforce that rule-all of the hard-core strike opponents who had barged into the end of the second mass meeting (May 7) to overturn its decisions were loudly present on May 10-makes the allegation that we followed the democratic process only so long as it suited our needs more than a little simplistic...