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...long time to come, Central America is likely to be testing U.S. patience. Unfortunately, that very quality has been missing in American foreign policy. Impatience is the dark side of a whole cluster of Yankee virtues. Confronted with intractable, ambiguous challenges in other lands, America's cando, problem-solving, troubleshooting instincts twitch in an often misguided quest for the quick fix. Got a problem? Send in a military governor or a proconsul or a special envoy. Still got a problem? Send money. Still got a problem? Send in the Rough Riders, or the Marines. For nearly a century, that...
...black, Thomas had once been proposed by Clark for a position under Enders in Washington, but Enders had opposed him. Thomas, 53, who holds a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale and has been a Russian interpreter, is seen by the White House as a nonbureaucratic type of "cando" diplomat...
Ronald Reagan's new beginning was not born, like the New Deal, from chaos or, like the Great Society, from the Texas-size ambition of a man who thought there was no limit to American cando. But Reagan's vision was inspired by a little of each. He saw clear signals of profound economic stress ahead; he also carried in his head, for nearly two decades, the conviction that Government need not be so big and so expensive and he could do something to change it. A calamity loomed. Reagan supplied the religion. His experts wrote the scripture...
...assembly-line method for making the Model T become an inspiration for the new industrial age. Detroit's auto technology spread throughout the world, even to the mountain towns of Argentina and Spain, and the big luxurious American auto became the very epitome of U.S. know-how and cando...
Tanaka's folksy ways and humble origins appealed then to the press and public alike. Earthy in speech and impatient in manner (the Japanese, he once said, "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government...