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...Administration's lack of "class" [March 6] bewildered me. Typical it was, however, of today's obsession with form over essence. I'll allow Ham Jordan his pyramidal fantasies if he and his "classless" Georgians spare us from an international faux pas as calamitous as the Viet Nam one. Enough of the Best and Brightest...
...Government seized the mines, but not under Taft-Hartley. At Connie Cook's Ashland Oil station, outside town, where striking miners sip coffee around an old space heater, William ("Fats") Stafford, 52, expressed a prevailing view. "I love this country and I had two sons serve in Viet Nam," he said. "I abide by the laws of this country, but not Taft-Hartley. That's slave labor, and there's no penalties in it against the companies...
...seems ridiculous today). That system might not have lasted in any case; even in the early 1960s there were worries about American balance of payments deficits and an outflow of gold from the U.S. But Lyndon Johnson put an intolerable strain on the system by fighting a war in Viet Nam without raising taxes early on or cutting domestic spending to pay for it. That policy spurred inflation at home, sucked in imports from abroad, and sent dollars pouring overseas by the billions. Under the rules that then applied, foreign central banks had to buy up any greenbacks that private...
Morris and Burns argue that there has been a dearth of constitutional study over the past two decades. As a result, the nation had to pick "piecemeal" through the Constitution during Viet Nam and Watergate while debating issues like impeachment and executive privilege...
...would be sold as an over-the-counter drug in containers warning that it could cause cancer"). He cannot fathom American Puritanism but admires the national trait of altruism. He cherishes our chronic forgetfulness and blithering unawareness of history (talkshow gabber to ex-Premier Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, who now runs a liquor store in California: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell us what went wrong...