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...hard to imagine, however, that such gestures could drastically alter the impression in South Viet Nam that Thieu is Washington's favorite. Last year, after all, Richard Nixon described Thieu as one of the "five or six greatest statesmen" in the world today. No matter how neutral the U.S. appears, Thieu is not likely to let the voters forget that overblown paean...
...could create other problems as well. Its emphasis on hospitals as the principal purveyors of primary care could, many fear, force the patient to accept treatment from any doctor who happened to be available. This, opponents feel, would deny them the right to choose their own doctors. It would alter still further the physician-patient relationship, a personal tie that has already been strained by a number of factors, including growing specialization...
President Nixon has used the term neo-isolationist to describe certain of his senatorial critics who would alter U.S. foreign policy or who seek a greater role for the Congress in shaping it. Once the name of a popular and viable political doctrine, isolationism today-with or without "neo" attached to it-is a pejorative word. It has no real validity in a world of instant communications, internationally linked economies, and nuclear weapons that can bridge continents at Mach 23 speed. Properly speaking, the term suggests someone who would like to disengage the U.S. from the rest of the world...
...proposed ways of dealing with the danger are to fill in the pond, to drain the pond, to construct a fence around the pond, or to radically alter the landscape around the pond. Gruson had no comment on the probability of any of these being adopted...
...FACT, Kissinger's use of the NSSM series to tie up Washington's civil service was a blunt, cynical attempt to alter the effectiveness of the National Security Council set-up. The options system had been designed to curtail the influence of the bureaucracy, not to remove it; but when the dust had cleared, the Cabinet departments had been rendered virtually ineffective in the choosing of policy. By foreclosing one source of ideas, Kissinger had eliminated the options that would derive from it. The result was that his own office had been measurably strengthened...