Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Depicting the President as an innocent victim of his aides is another theme. "Judging by all the known evidence," Columnist Joseph Alsop said recently, "the President was persistently, flagrantly and arrogantly lied to about this matter, by a whole series of men to whom he had given total confidence." The El Dorado, Kans., Times agreed: "We believe that when the matter became public the President was lied to by the yard by men [whom] he trusted, and who went to disgusting lengths to try to make his campaign for re-election a winning one." In William...
...base" myth seems harmless compared to the view that China's leaders intend that their friendship with the United States serve as a guarantee that the United States would not remain neutral in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on China. While it is interesting to read Joseph Alsop's report of President Nixon's refusal in February 1969 to join the Soviet Union in a preemptive attack on China's fledgling nuclear facilities, it may be unwarranted to draw the conclusion that the United States would ever sacrifice its basic national security interests for China's sake. During...
...universities as they, too, rethink their objectives. Since it is readily apparent that their degrees no longer ensure top jobs, colleges and universities must offer students far more than credentials. They must become more concerned with enhancing their students' lives -with helping a Maynard find wisdom or an Alsop acquire seasoning. Education may not be "the great equalizer of the conditions of men," as Horace Mann hoped, but it can still serve as a "balance-wheel of society" if it offers students different routes to follow according to their individual abilities and aspirations...
...plumber for love or money, but China is the very embodiment of the "work ethic" we have been hearing so much about lately. No wonder, then, that Nixon was reportedly exhilarated by the sight of 200,000 Chinese clearing snow in unison, or that Alsop was most impressed by the fact that under Mao, the Chinese people are "unremittingly hard working." Or that, by comparison with the needle-popping U.S. Army, the Chinese "New Model Army" inspired Alsop to write lyrically: "All the men appeared to be singularly tough, dedicated and able. And the setting was sternly functional, splendidly clean...
...While Alsop's December and January columns were discussing the virtues of militarism, President Nixon with the blessing of the Chinese, was engaging in a stratospheric martial exercise over Hanoi. In an AP interview--conducted during the bombing but released later--Nixon commented, "It's important to live like a Spartan." He went on: "I believe in the battle, whether it's the battle of a campaign, or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle...