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Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during...
...gift from their own ancestors a sense of a divine moral covenant. Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop called it "a mutuall consent through a specially overruleing providence." Virginia's John Rolfe saw the colonists as "a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God ..." for their "errand into the wilderness." The covenant helped them measure vice and virtue...
...tribes," whether these be philosophical and family traditions, racial and ethnic clusters, age and sex groupings, or movements and causes. In recent years moral renewal has occurred more frequently within these colonies and tribes than in their federation, the national community. Voluntary associations, some derived from the churches' "errand of mercy," and some growing out of other roots, have resources. For some, what Robert N. Bellah calls "civil religion," wherein national life is a kind of matrix and repository of values, offers a promise that surpasses its dangers of self-idolization by bringing citizens into a zone of common...
...could to change his unprepossessing image. He unsuccessfully tried amphetamines to cure his weight problem. He borrowed the Christian names of Saxophonist Elton Dean and Leader John Baldry to create a new stage name for himself. Then he went off to London, where he found work as an errand boy at a music company...
...over. At last, after so many months of poisonous suspicion, a kind of undeclared civil war that finally engaged all three branches of the American Government, the ordeal had ended. As the Spirit of 76 in one last errand arced across central Missouri carrying Richard Nixon to his retirement, Gerald Rudolph Ford stood in the East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific...