Word: dilemmas
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...always comes back to the same thing," Nixon said in a moment of exasperation. "If we end our involvement and set a date, they will agree to discuss prisoners-not to release them." Then, last week, the Communists suddenly offered the captives for ransom-and thus created a major dilemma for the Administration...
...think there can be but one answer to this dilemma. The Executive must have the largely unshared duty to determine and preserve the degree of internal security necessary to exercise that power successfully. It is an awesome responsibility requiring judgment and wisdom of a high order. A very first principle of that wisdom would be an insistence upon avoiding secrecy for its own sake. For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion...
...dilemma of the U.S. involvement dating from the Kennedy era," wrote the authors of the Pentagon study on the Viet Nam War in 1967, was to apply "only limited means to achieve excessive ends." Last week, as additional parts of the Pentagon papers were published, the new documents continued to show a disturbing pattern of inexperience and ignorance at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, cynicism about America's Vietnamese "allies," and an unwillingness in Washington to abandon official policies even after they had proved to be failures. Examples...
...exposing the secret history of decisions that had led to a dangerously unpopular public policy. Appeal to a higher morality by an individual or an organization is often necessary?and always dangerous. No government of law can passively permit it?or simply repress it. Therein lies the Administration's dilemma. There may be too many Daniel Ellsbergs in the U.S. now for a President to ignore their will...
...have backed off from the idea. One of them is Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who despairs of the effectiveness of conventional economic policy tools in dealing with the nation's deep-rooted inflationary psychology. To friends, Burns has explained the dilemma: "We are not living in the same world any more. The old remedies are not working." The quandary has left many of Nixon's other top economic advisers equally frustrated and perplexed...