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From traveling secretary of baseball's Cincinnati Reds to reporter to Washington bureau chief to Journalist Statesman-in-Residence. And what does Reston search for? The meaning of the nation's 200th anniversary. Perhaps he thinks that America will find "dignity, simplicity, and unity" through some gala birthday party. It is a fruitless hope...
Reston desperately wants his America to achieve a solid place in history; last summer, while Watergate witnesses daily revealed White House corruption, Reston mused on how Nixon's America would look on July 4, 1976--the nation's 200th anniversary. That the bicentennial was three years away did not stop Reston. In fact, he wrote as early as 1966: "The 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence will be celebrated ten years from this week, and while Americans are not normally enthusiastic about ten-year plans, it is a date worthy of some serious and sustained planning" (July...
...even the cautious Times called for Nixon's resignation, Reston worried about the anniversary celebration: "The issue is no longer of the Watergate tapes, or the Middle East, or even of the President, but the leadership of the Republic and the trust of the American people on the 200th anniversary of the nation on July 4, 1976, and between now and Jan. 20, 1977" (Oct. 28, 1973 column...
According to Reston's November 4 column, "Most of the nation has been too sad or preoccupied to think much about the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence recently." And three days later: "There was a theory a year ago that Mr. Nixon would ... use his victory to bring about an era of reconciliation before the 200th anniversary of the Declaration...
TOMORROW is the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party was no picnic, nor was it a purely symbolic act. Celebrating it as either can only obscure our understanding of the American Revolution and conceal the meaning of revolutionary activity in general. That is why there is some significance to the way Americans choose to recall the Tea Party at the beginning of the Revolution's Bicentennial celebration...