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...Unusual Candor. But a deeper source of confusion is Carter's approach to the human rights issue, which many countries feel is preachy as well as impractical. To them it is not clear what Carter hopes to achieve, especially because only a handful of the world's countries could ever qualify for the U.S. human rights seal of approval. The policy also seems inconsistent to many because U.S. officials have explained that security considerations could prompt Washington to exempt some human rights offenders from penalties...
...proposed possible compromises designed to break the deadlock in U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks. In his U.N. speech, he called for "strict controls or even a freeze on new types and new generations of weaponry and a deep reduction in the strategic arms of both sides." Then, with a candor unusual in a foreign policy address, he disclosed a possible negotiating fallback position, suggesting "a limited agreement based on those elements of the Vladivostok accord on which we can find complete consensus, [setting aside] the more contentious issues...
That's not to say Billy Carter is a fake. His candor, although not of the Will Rogers quality attributed to him by Rifkin and Howard, is clearly of an interesting and unrehearsed nature. No Carter aide told him, for instance, to say the President's biggest problem is that "he's around people that kiss his ass all the time...
...speaks frankly, making his opinions and principles clear without mincing words. (This characteristic, of course, is in part a political tool; his candor allows him to retain his reputation for integrity and independence both with his colleagues and his constituents.) An obvious example was his reaction to Carter's "ethnic purity" gaffe during the primary campaign; while defending Carter's good intentions, Young flatly said the statement was "loaded with Hitlerian connotations" and was "a disaster for the campaign." At the very least then, one can still find Young encouraging because he stands in a position, even if only...
Laughing Last is much closer to the book Alger Hiss should have written. If Tony Hiss errs, it is on account of a candor that at times is almost too blunt. We are told more about the sex lives of father and son than perhaps we want to know. But that flaw is understandable, the idea behind the book is to get us to see Alger Hiss as do those close to him, as "Al", the disciplined, kind, warm father and husband who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. So we learn of Al's love...