Word: statism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welcome both in London and at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. In an exceptionally eloquent speech Friday in London's 550-year-old Guildhall, he pledged a "forward strategy of freedom" in dealing with Moscow, a "strategy of public candor about the moral and fundamental differences between statism and democracy, but also a strategy of vigorous diplomatic engagement." Back in the U.S., speaking to a flag-waving crowd, the President was more brief and personal. "We're a little tired," he said, "but we're exhilarated at what has happened...
...which of these three statements was made in 1960 and which 24 years later? "I am convinced that America is economically conservative . . . I'm sure the American people do not want the government paid services 'at any price' . . . If we start down the road to statism it leads to socialism." Answer: Reagan made the third statement last week, commenting on the 1960 letter; the first two are from the letter itself. Nixon evidently was impressed by Reagan's letter. At the top he scrawled a note to a campaign aide: "Use him [Reagan] as speaker whenever...
...future and his own, using a formulation similar to the sharp "war and peace" alternatives that Jimmy Carter envisioned on the 1980 campaign trail. Said Reagan: "Isn't our choice really not one of left or right but of up or down-down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more Government largesse ... The alternative is the dream conceived by our founding fathers, up, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society." He concluded with a rambling evocation of the new patriotic spirit conveyed by the passage of the Olympic torch across America...
...Government officials as spies . . . [Later] Chambers would write that faith, not economics, is the central problem of our age, and that "the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Chambers' story represents a generation's disenchantment with statism and its return to eternal truths and fundamental values...
...whether of speech, of assembly, or of labor--is anathema to Soviet-controlled regimes in Eastern Europe. A gradual meliorist approach to meaningful social reform is untenable for the Soviets and their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing so if the martial-law regime succeeds in its crackdown...