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...have taken turns showing their immunity to presidential will. The resulting image of lapsed Executive control has greatly added to White House problems. But bad news often feeds as much on itself as on events. Despite his difficulties in a number of areas, the President has vigorously begun to assert his leadership in one of the most crucial areas of all, the running of the U.S. Government...
Chasing Bandits. Even so, the Constitution does not define the difference between war and murky actions short of it. As a result, Chief Executives have felt increasingly free to undertake the military maneuvers required of a major nation. For its part, Congress did not assert authority over such actions as Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903 and Woodrow Wilson's willingness to do what Taft would not−send troops to chase Pancho Villa's raiders in Mexico...
...trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation believe with the organizers of Campaign G.M. that the corporations of America must assert an unprecedented order of leadership in helping to solve the social problems of our time. We realize that for corporations to exercise this leadership they must continue to prosper and to grow and to be profitable investments to their stockholders. But to stop there is to stop short of the moral and civic response required of the leaders of industry by the present crisis in our social order. There are battles to be waged against racism, poverty, pollution and urban blight...
...violence, dissent is the first casualty. Today the nation is in considerable need of healing, as well as elevating, language; often in the past that need has been filled by protesters whose perspective on society matched their passionate commitment to its improvement. Now is the time for dissenters to assert their own dignity and maintain their tradition by upholding the ultimate value of the word...
...would probably not get past the first two-thirds; some from the gray area, the second third, might not be drafted. Yet the heads of Selective Service boards in Massachusetts, Illinois, New York City and numerous other places insisted just one week after the drawing (and many continue to assert) that in order to meet quotas they would have to take everyone in the lottery pool. What is going on? Why this vast difference in projections between the Pentagon and the local draft boards...