Word: defend
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Syndicated New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48 took time out last night to defend the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from recent campaign attacks before a Law School audience...
This election was supposed to prove Bush to be the ultimate political wimp. Instead, Dukakis has become the candidate who refuses to defend himself and the principles he represents. The voters want a President who can stand up on their behalf. How can Dukakis convince the public he is capable of standing up for them, if he refuses to stand up for himself...
LIKE most Americans, I tuned in last week to watch Vice President George Bush and Governor Michael S. Dukakis square off in the first of three presidential debates. Although I enjoyed watching Bush feebly defend his demagogic attacks on Dukakis' patriotism, I left highly skeptical of the value of these quadrennial exercises for the American voter...
...Address to "pay any price, bear any burden . . . to assure the survival and the success of liberty" was translated into policy as the Viet Nam War -- an unambiguous and, as it turned out, disastrous exercise in containment. Under the Nixon Doctrine of 1969, the U.S. deputized friendly potentates to defend Western interests. The star example, alas, was the Shah of Iran. In that case, as in others, this latest form of containment led American policymakers to rely excessively on the dubious principle that the enemies of our enemies would make good enforcers of the Pax Americana...
History tells us that the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War were brave civilians who were ready to defend their territory at a minute's notice...