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There is a third point which, like the preceding two, is an extension of one of the basic myths of public education. It is the myth of free and unmanipulated options. The university-extension of this grade-school self-deceit is the idea which liberal jargon calls "the open market of ideas." Intellectuals from Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. write often--and with considerable alarm--of those within the Rebel Left who seek to undermine, subvert, destroy the so-called "open conflict" of competitive ideas which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine...
...have been more significant had it come from a local oil company, building contractor or politician-all top-ranking "ethical" members of society. How unfortunate for a society that hails as "ethical" those who weave a "goodie" blanket of All-Americanism around them yet thrive on greed, corruption and deceit...
...lofty retreats conceiving the grand designs for East-West detente and for revenue sharing, the people he left in charge of the White House were running amuck. Nixon, according to his own account, did not inquire what his aides were doing and did not sense the lawlessness and deceit that grew up around him. He was, among other things, gone too much...
Hughes does not mention Watergate. Late in his book, with great precision and restraint, he analyzes the follies of Nixon and Johnson over Viet Nam. Among them: misinterpretation of history, extravagance of purpose, blindness to cost, arrogance, deceit, disdain for Congress and the twisting of patriotism - this last, Richard Nixon's appalling variation on the McCarthy era's theme that any disagreement with U.S. policy amounts to some kind of treason. Hughes points out, though, that the presidential methods employed to get embroiled in the war were almost exactly like the methods used by earlier Presidents - among them...
...never clear if Tatum is Ryan's daughter in the film -- she comes into his care after her mother's funeral -- and it doesn't really matter. Along with the audience, he falls under the spell of her raspy voice, impish deceit, and winsome pugface...