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...other hand, the White House usually lets the press know that these meetings occur, that the confrontations were thoroughly amicable. This one-sided leak, a time-honored political maneuver, is meant to convince Americans with intellectual pretensions that any President who spends so much time soft-soaping their brethren can't be that misguided after...
...attitude is not without historical precedent. Segregationists of the U.S. South often quote the Book of Genesis 9:25, which relates that Canaan, the son of Ham-whose skin was believed to be black-is ac cursed throughout time: "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume suspected "Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Several U.S. Presidents, among them Jefferson and Lincoln, shared the same opinion, at least for a while. As long as the two races lived together, said Lincoln in 1858, "there must be the position...
...which the activists have a maximum of power; while activists seem to be most effective at a university which has a large hippy population. Each group helps the other--the hippies provide the life style and atmosphere while the activists bring about the changes which allow their wigged-out brethren to survive...
Until a few years ago, the C.O. in good standing had to belong to one of the recognized religious sects-notably the Friends, Mennonites or Church of the Brethren-that are totally opposed to war. However, recent Supreme Court rulings have opened the door to a broader interpretation of religious training and belief. "You can be a conscientious objector today," claims Frank Speltz, 25, a Washington antidraft counselor, "with little semblance of religious training...
...that attracted Sociologist Nathan Glazer, who asked him to write a chapter on the Irish for a book on New York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink and violence...