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After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude, Farber went on to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where he received a Master of Public Affairs degree...
...Nationalists, meanwhile, contend that they are the de jure representatives of all of China because they were the last to be chosen in freely contested elections, ending in 1948. According to a school of diplomatic thought dating back to Woodrow Wilson, only constitutionally elected governments should be acceptable to the community of nations. The Nationalists can also cite a more widely held point of international law, the so-called "Ethiopian Principle," which dates from 1938 when Emperor Haile Selassie was in hiding from his country's Italian invaders. Rome then sought international recognition of its sovereignty over Ethiopia...
...traditional faith. U.S. foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1890. Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a visionary military strategist, saw the seas as an "open plain" and urged the country "to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy." The isolationist past was decisively rejected by Woodrow Wilson's intervention on the Allied side in World War I, but it was revived by the disillusionment that followed his crusade to make the world safe for democracy. The anti-internationalist movement reached a peak of influence in the years just before World War II. Its primary goal...
...shelves. I went to a large and intellectually shoddy public high school, but somehow we always had a pretty good yearbook. Mine is full of "autographs"-cutesy inscriptions from friends promising a wonderful future and at least two marriages. I don't know where these fellow Woodrow Wilson graduates are these days, but at least I can piece together the never-never-land existence I shared with them once upon a time...
...questionable if it is alive." Each new thought, each fresh phrase lights him up as he beholds himself. "It's not a Silent Majority; it's a deaf Administration. There is no spirit." Old Father Humphrey ("Daddy") is up on the wall, the man who read him Woodrow Wilson and Willam Jennings Bryan. Humphrey talks about how the public now is a different public from when he started. The people cannot be fooled. They know. About January he is going to ask himself if they really believe in his ideas or whether they consider him only a rerun...