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According to director Dwight H. Perkins, staff members first consider whether the project itself will contribute to the welfare of the host nation's people. Then they look at the "moral" landscape of the country...
...have little understanding of where slashes in [the military budget's estimates] can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world. I shudder to think what could happen in this country." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a 1956 letter to a friend...
...President is really only the latest in a long series of "outsider" aspirants for executive positions: Wendell Wilkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower both sought the top job with no civilian government experience on their resumes. George Romney (R-Mich.). Milton Schapp (D-Pa.), John Y. Brown (D-Ky.). Lester Maddox (D-Ga.). and most prominently Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY.) all led their states without having led a previous major political office...
...mention it, but they sense the sudden difference. So, in a less direct way, do the rest of us in the U.S. We also sense the impotence of too much power. The nuclear weapons that were trotted out of the military closet for symbolic effect by Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy are less and less serviceable for the globe's trouble spots. Nuclear weapons can no longer intimidate the Soviets, who have as many of them as we do; in the masses now assembled by both superpowers, those weapons threaten, if unleashed, a hideous end to civilization...
...There is a mood and attempt to go away from the early principles of the department," the Rev. Dwight N. Hopkins '76, a member of the alumni group, said yesterday. "Any, Black alumnus who reads the New York Times has got to be concerned," be added...