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...amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit," said Harry Truman. While Americans for the moment seem to have abandoned this axiom, Mikhail Gorbachev has picked it up. In a private White House ceremony not long ago, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze handed President Reagan a Russian box. Inside was a glittering gold medal, the first struck in the Soviet Union commemorating the new arms agreement. "The General Secretary wanted you to have it since you are the architect of the INF treaty," said Shevardnadze. Reagan's surprise was as great as his gratification...
...learned that as a basic axiom of politics, you always solidify your base at the beginning of the campaign and then you move out to gain supporters in sympathetic groups," said Bruce Bolling, president of the Boston City Council and former state chairperson of the Jackson for President Campaign. "A campaign with an almost solitary emphasis on Reagan Democrats was a failed strategy...
...fried dumplings were succulent. They were hot, with just enough oil to make them truly yummy. The boiled dumplings, much cheaper, proved the axiom you get what you pay for. You pay more for the fried dumplings, but they taste much better...
...riposte to an aggressive Dan Rather: "It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?" The tactic illustrates an Ailes axiom: when attacked, hit back so hard your opponent rues the day he got nasty...
Ellwood, who argues articulately and coherently for revamping the current American approaches to poverty, accepts the standard axiom of welfare--that everybody hates it--and he goes on to explain his reasons why. Welfare, as Ellwood reasons it, is the wrong set of remedies to a misidentified set of problems. It fails to address the causes of poverty, and it penalizes those poor Americans who come closest to embracing traditional values of work and value...