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America must continue to take risks and continue to grow in order to keep alive the country's romantic spirit, said national budget director Richard G. Darman '64 at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...must continue to foster the policies of growth, the risk-taking of pioneers in all walks of life and the romantic spirit that has given the world the American example," said Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. Speaking to an audience of more than 500 people in a jammed Institute of Politics Forum, Darman issued a call to all Americans to preserve the country's greatness into the next century...
...Darman, who coined the Kennedy School motto "Excellence in Government" as a lecturer at the institution during the early '80s, spoke of the need for Americans to recapture the romantic spirit that characterized the nation in better times. He defined romanticism as "a love of freedom, respect for individual rights... hope, optimism, a confident faith in the future...
Insisting that America must remain "number one"--both in reality and perception--Darman reminded the audience of the nation's history of serving as an example for the rest of the world. "From its very founding, America has served as a beacon of hope, the proverbial 'city on a hill.' Millions of immigrants have risked and sacrificed--voted with their feet--to reach this promised land. Millions and millions more have voted with their hearts from afar...
...Then, Darman lashed out at environmentalists, saying "It would be a regrettable irony if just as the values of the American romance were to triumph in the East-West struggle, they were to be lost in what some environmentalists like to term the struggle for 'global management...