Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neither political activities, such as the President's re-election campaign, nor the maintaining of records for historical purposes?the ostensible aim of Nixon's taping program?is among the President's constitutional duties. Therefore they cannot be protected by Executive privilege. Nixon's legal position is weak (see following story...
Throughout, Wilson holds to the aim he set for himself as a young critic: "Try to contribute something new or call attention to some neglected aspect . . ." An example of the latter is Wilson's emphasis on Mencken's habitual confusion in thinking and his dogmatic German brutality . . . We never expected coherence of Mencken. He was a poet in prose and a humorist...
...rages in his films at the state of modern humanity, deadened by conformity and isolated in a world gone ludicrously amuck. His job, he seems to feel, is to jolt his viewers awake the same way he did the starlet: with a sound moral thwacking. "The artist must always aim beyond the limits of tolerance," he once wrote. "His duty is to be a monster...
...there once and for all. It was a curious preview of later Administration reasoning: cancelling elections to protect democracy smacks of destroying villages in order to save them. But the confusion was inevitable, given that the preservation of political democracy and the suppression of economic democracy was a basic aim of American foreign policy. Political democracy without economic democracy was impossible in Vietnam. The communist peasants out-numbered the liberal middle-class too over-whelmingly, and the Vietnamese middle-class was too weak and too discredited by its involvement with the French...
...only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only lead to Nixonesque immorality. It is doubtful that a radical's convictions could survive a conventional climb to the Presidency unadulterated...