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...apparent that Nixon has once again credited the public with extraordinary gullibility. That anyone with his political intelligence could have decimated an on-going inquiry into the crimes of his own administration and then been surprised by the resultant outcry is absurd. Nixon is simply not that stupid...
...national security purposes, I repeat, they are totally worthless. Certainly, massive military forces can serve Pentagon aggressive purposes as in Korea and Indochina. Without military conscription, limited wars of naked and raw agression such as in Korea and Indochina would become impossible. It is absolutely absurd, it seems to me, to argue that a massive foreign military force could invade the United States in the thermo-nuclear age, and therefore we must be prepared to repel it with a massive military force. This is on a par with the biggest propaganda lies ever proposed by Goebbels and Hitler...
Others called the award absurd humorous, imaginative and offensive. The most glaring contradiction, however, is not whether Kissinger deserves the award--many feel he does not--but over the gaping differences between the co-winners...
Even more naive is the editorial's scolding of Bok. The president of a major university wears many hats, and like a politician, not all of what he says should be taken at face value. While Bok's remarks in June may have been ill-advised, it would be absurd to hold a student referendum to administer a collective slap on the wrist...
...such resolutions, he noted wryly that National Clean Water Week and National Next-Door Neighbor Day had not brought about any notable improvement in the nation's waterways or in its interpersonal relations. Hechler maintains that declarations such as National Check Your Vehicle Emission Month are plainly absurd. As far as National Family Week is concerned, Hechler snorts: "If the American family depends on the thin thread of a congressional resolution to hold it together, the American family really is in trouble...