Word: dilemmas
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Marshall: How are you going to impeach him if you don't know about it? You're on the prongs of a dilemma, huh? [When St. Clair demurred, Marshall pushed on.] If you know the President is doing something wrong, you can impeach him. But the only way you can find out is this way, so you don't impeach him. You lose me some place along there...
That outcome was at least in part shaped by the specter of Watergate. His domestic burden placed Nixon in a dilemma. He badly wanted some kind of major arms-limitations agreement in the area of strategic offensive missiles, not only for its own sake but also to bolster his image as the indispensable President, the man best qualified to handle foreign affairs. Success now at the summit was so important to Nixon that he did not delay his trip despite the dangers to his health posed by the blood clot in his left leg. Yet as he bargained with...
...circular dilemma: Is a leader chosen only after a critical, reasonably mature, well-informed public has decided roughly where it wants to be led; or does a leader appear first to tell the public where it wants to be led? Woodrow Wilson held that leadership is "interpretation" or articulation: "The forces of the public thought may be blind; [the leader] must lend them sight; they may blunder; he must set them right." But Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test and calculate very circumspectly...
...furnished a workable solution to that dilemma, but it is clear that leaders and potential leaders will have to work in three interrelated yet distinct areas: 1) institutional reform; 2) political philosophy; 3) personal attitudes...
...that the moral dilemma ends there. Newsmen constantly wrestle with the problem of how to find their way among the innumerable shadings of truth and the often agonizing choices about what to print and what not to print. Despite the public's frequently naive faith in "objective," just-the-facts reporting, every newsman must interpret and judge; which things to put in among various indisputable facts and what to leave out often constitutes the most important form of judgment...