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...average American Jew has no difficulty reconciling support for Israel with loyalty to the U.S. Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall...
Neither an end to the Viet Nam War nor continued expansion of the economy, by Nixon's calculations, offers much prospect of yielding dividends to buttress the nation's attack on its problems. Said he: "Existing programs of government and probable demands of the private sector could use up all the output we can produce for several years to come. If we decide to do something new or something more in one direction, we will have to give up something elsewhere." As he has before, Nixon blamed "the errors of the past" for much of the present...
Both Beard and Williams rejected the label "isolationist." First of all. The Tragedy persuasively argued that in the so-called "isolationist" 1920's American interests and commitments were world-wide: by uniltateral action (such as the official Dawes and Young loans to the faltering German economy) we sought to buttress free trade throughout the world. Secondly, the kind of reorientation Beard and Williams advocated would not inherently isolate the United States from the world. With less proclivity to intervene in the interests of a world market system, we might feel more inclined to act vigorously out of unselfish interest...
...impresses many eminent economists. Says Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "I think we have to be very, very careful in suggesting that inflation is the enemy of the poor. It may be their friend in employment terms." Some Government figures buttress the argument. For example, 800,000 of the 5,800,000 U.S. families that were officially defined as poor in 1966 had increased their incomes enough to rise above the poverty line last year. Their gains were achieved even though inflation had meanwhile pushed the poverty line up from...
Dillon chairman of the board of United States, and Foreign Securities Corporation, is expected to play a major role in helping to buttress the museum's financial standing...