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...spangly, fairy-tale part of the First Lady's role may reach its apotheosis in the State Dining Room. Yet even state dinners are, to Nancy Reagan, an agglomeration of hundreds of prosaic checklist items. She approves and tastes beforehand virtually every item on every menu. During the first term, she spent roughly 450 hours planning 30-odd state dinners. She presided at nearly as many other official dinners, as well as an additional 250 official White House functions, the picture-perfect but surely enervating flurry of luncheons, teas, receptions. Such occasions require a deep well of small talk...
...conclusions are simple: pick wars carefully, make sure the public will cooperate, and then fight to win. Weinberger's rules are nothing new. Thoughtful U.S. military officers have been recommending the same deliberate course for some time. But Weinberger, rather surprisingly, has codified that consensus into an explicit checklist of the prerequisites for military action, a kind of national how-to guide...
...cabinet meeting where President Eisenhower and congressional leaders learn about the Soviet flight into space, the politicians debate over what Americans would make the best astronaut. Two advisors run through a checklist of daredevils and stuntmen-trapeze artists, hang-gliders, human cannonballs-as the best people to launch into the atmosphere. The implication is that such a person is not-as our hindsight a freak. It is for public relations reasons, not need of certain skills, that Eisenhower finally demands, "I want test pilots...
...population than in almost any other Western democracy. Though sincere and diligent in their efforts, they failed. To be sure, there are structural reasons why millions of Americans opt not to help choose the leaders who will tax them, spend their money and draft their laws. Perhaps the checklist embraced by the symposium would boost participation by as much as 9 percent, as claimed. But the voters gained would be those with the incredibly short attention span, the citizens only marginally weakened from their coma of apathy...
...argued that the press and all institutions are under attack by a public that finds them too big, too arrogant and too unaccountable. People find themselves helpless to alter what they think wrong and feel frustrated. But never mind if attacks are sometimes unfair. Jones has provided a useful checklist to remedy some of the faults the public complains about...