Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WILLS' anti-myth; it goes something like this John F. Kennedy was basically a power-hungry adolescent, recklessly acting out James Bond style fantasies in the White House. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an ill-planned, impossibly romantic stunt, Kennedy's own baby rather than an Eisenhower inheritance. The Cuban missile crisis was a false "triumph"--manufactured by Kennedy in the first place, it nearly led to nuclear war as Kennedy tried to live up to his rhetoric and humiliate Khruschev. Whether it was his obsessive pursuit of women--which, one might say, made Kennedy's administration as illustrious...
...faith in a person, rather than in traditional and legal authorities. The charismatic leader has little regard for formal institutions and structures, by-passing them in order to assume the reins of power himself. Not only were the consequences of this style of rule disastrous in the Bay of Pigs crisis--Kennedy deprived himself of the military oversight of the plan which would have pointed up its flaws--but they were also destructive for succeeding presidents: With all the Kennedy minions swarming around, Lyndon Johnson felt like an intruder. So he responded by assembling his own set of cronies, fashioning...
...America seems to cherish. To John Kennedy, "power had only two components--ample resources, and the will to use them." If the military budget is big enough and the president is man enough, than we are unstoppable. The unique conditions which existed in Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs (all of which signalled a certain failure to overthrow Castro) were hardly taken into consideration. Why bother? Of course, there is a lesson to be learned from The Kennedy Imprisonment, a lesson which Wills rightly thinks the country should take to heart: Don't equate power with physical...
Looking for some peace and quiet? Cross Boca Ciega Bay to St. Petersburg Beach, take a left at the Don Cesar hotel (the big pink thing) and drive about four miles down Pass-A-Grille Way. There on your left, is The Seadrift. Break through the cobwebs and walk inside Look empty? It should. They haven't had a paying customer in months. The pinball machines are the old pachinko kind, the beer on tap is Rheingold, and the walls are decorated with old Washington Senators pennants. If you've had enought of tourists no, make that any kind...
...battle won to keep taxes at bay, Human Events has since turned to savaging the GOP leadership for its less than full-hearted support of the budget. Headlines like "Why Aren't GOP Leaders Selling President's Budget" or "GOP Leaders Damaging 1982 Elections Prospects" dot recent front pages of the tabloid. Winter and his associate have hammered away at Senators Baker, Dole, and Domenici for showing skepticism about the administration's economic plans. Indeed, though the editor commended Reagan for continuing his "revolutionary path" with the new budget and new federalism, they urge still further spending cuts, "We think...