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Success in the Oval Office requires that mistakes be acknowledged and corrected, that communication be direct and candid, both internally and with outside adversaries. In this time of penetrating surveillance and instant communication, the old art of bluffing and posturing is often foolish and hazardous. We know each other's capabilities. Thus clear understanding of purposes is essential. It is a basic rule of today's diplomacy that successful negotiations never produce "winners" in the television sense, only satisfied parties on both sides of the table. Threats hurled back and forth are a sign of failed leadership...
...foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. --Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...streets of Washington, slaughtering hogs and boiling up big vats of grits out back of the Sans Souci." But as the Carter era wore on, Blount felt betrayed. He would not forgive his fellow Southerner for letting Congress, the Soviets, the Iranians and that killer rabbit make him look foolish. Why, he wonders, couldn't the President be more like his brother, a real, no-nonsense redneck? "The first Cracker President should have been a mixture of Jimmy and Billy," Blount reckons, "a cobbler of Billy's basic blackberries oozing up into and through Jimmy...
Goldie Hawn might have saved Private Benjamin but she fails miserably. She looks foolish, mugging and whining like Lucille Ball. In the past, Hawn has given warmth and a glimmer of intelligence to the many poorly written characters she's portrayed. But Judy Benjamin, who gives painfully new meaning to the word shallow, renders Hawn helpless. One can only hope that Private Benjamin won't start a new wave of contemporary service comedies. The world's not yet ready for Francis the Talking Mule Goes to Afghanistan...
...exchange of ideas" about which the administration prates when it suits its purposes? Will Professor X's graduate students be enjoined from speaking to those of Y, and if they do will they be guilty of industrial espionage? And finally, what about the rest of us who are so foolish as to study unprofitable things like poetry, Sanskrit philology, evolutionary biology and the history of the Chansons? Will Mr. Rosovsky have time to hear our pleas for space, colleagues, funds and students between meetings with the University's business partners...