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...comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded. Hear them today, and their every statement is a nuanced embrace of reason, each a seemingly heartfelt echo of Bush at his Inaugural: "I yearn for a greater tolerance and easygoingness about each other's attitudes and way of life." Hear the President say he would support his granddaughter's hypothetical decision to terminate her pregnancy, and his matter-of-fact insistence that the decision to do so would...
Connors' statements echo those made in a June 10 letter by former University Attorney and Director of Human Resources Diane Patrick. In the letter, Patrick, who conducted the University's investigation, cited similar inquiries by the EEOC and MCAD...
Despite questions of the motivation behind them, the attacks by the President and the Vice President on the moral content of television entertainment have found an echo in the chambers of the American soul. Many who reject the messengers still accept the message. They do not like the moral tone of American TV. In our society only the human family surpasses television in its capacity to communicate values, provide role models, form consciences and motivate human behavior. Few educators, church leaders or politicians possess the moral influence of those who create the nation's entertainment...
...feel that this appeal of mine is finding a positive echo, but a very indirect one. Here, as in every democracy, we witness all the aspirations, ambitions, battles and hunger for power. My position seems to be the one of a dreamer who mumbles something about ideals, completely untouched by real life, whereas politics takes a different course. But this is a very banal view. In reality it seems to me that my constant repetition of certain things planted seeds. I do see this right now, in the moment when my federal presidency is over. From various sides I seem...
Those folks spend years working and traveling together. On press planes they hear the same stories and retell whatever juicy morsels of gossip they have heard recently. Press hotels, press buses, filing centers, poolside chats among journalists on the road with the president--all become an echo chamber of rumor upon hearsay upon possible story idea. And the reporters are constantly pushing sources for something, anything, that The Post or The Times or CNN does not have...