Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under Secretary Christopher's stewardship, U.S. foreign policy is being questioned from Capitol Hill to capitals of the world, in editorial columns and on TV panel shows. Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti have become symbols of U.S. efforts going nowhere. Foreign leaders wonder at the passivity they detect in the U.S. and whether it will change when the next major crisis arrives, as it inevitably will. Public attention has focused on the trouble spots and the Administration's disorganized, amateurish response to them. Says a former U.S. diplomat: "The top levels don't know what they want to accomplish...
While it is quick to call on our leaders to do something to help, public opinion is even more adamant about the virtual absence of American casualties. Congress was silent about American deaths in Somalia until angry constituents with conveniently short memories flooded Capitol Hill with letters and phone calls...
...Senate, Packwood should resign immediately. In a time when confidence in Washington is unhealthily low, the allegations surrounding Packwood, true or not, are not improving the situation. His ability to lead has been mortally wounded, and even the people of Oregon probably would not send him back to Capitol Hill if an election were held today. Resigning may take more bravery, but it is the only option left if Packwood truly wants to protect his right to privacy as well as the precarious condition of American government...
Back at home Graham was always an interested, although cautious, student of politics. In public he was careful to keep his role spiritual: it took an act of Congress in 1952 for Graham to be allowed to hold the first religious service on the Capitol steps. But in private he pestered Truman about the need to turn back communism in Korea and encouraged Eisenhower to send troops to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation. According to Martin, so involved was he in counseling his friend Richard Nixon that the defeated candidate would write in 1960, "I have often told friends...
White House officials attempted to ensure that the unease caused by the Democrats' Election Day losses did not hurt the North American Free Trade Agreement. Pollster Stan Greenberg was sent to Capitol Hill to convince Democrats that supporting NAFTA would not displease voters. In the meantime, Vice President Al Gore surprisingly challenged Ross Perot, NAFTA's fiercest opponent, to a debate over its merits, and Perot, unsurprisingly, accepted...