Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of recommendations was at first included, then left out. It would have got in the way of the attention-arousing argument that a crisis was coming and that family stability was the best measure of success or failure in dealing with it. The program response was anyhow obvious enough: guaranteed full employment, birth control, adoption services, etc. But first of all a family allowance. The United States is the only industrial democracy in the world without a system of automatic income supplements for people living with their children. It is the simplest and possibly the most effective...
...argument that the bombing policy is a necessary psychological booster to the Saigon government and military forces is now outdated. Things have changed since February, 1965, when the bombing began on a regular basis and the Saigon government was on the brink of total collapse. The Viet Cong are no longer in a position to take Saigon, and the Ky government is now far more stable than its predecessors...
...victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit that seems a stranger within his skin, he continues the gritty business of contacting comrades, smuggling propaganda into con- voluted Spanish cities where, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, the streets follow like a tedious argument...
Schlesinger also urges a suspension of U.S. bombing of the North, because the raids might well "heighten Hanoi's resolve to fight on." He is not alone in that argument. But he gives insufficient weight to an equal probability: an end to the bombing might lead Hanoi to the mistaken conclusion that if it holds off negotiations just a little longer, the U.S. will finally tire of the whole mess...
...victory, only an avoidance of defeat. Still, out of a habit that seems a stranger within his skin, he continues the gritty business of contacting comrades, smuggling propaganda into convoluted Spanish cities where, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, the streets follow like a tedious argument...