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...businessmen wore gray flannel suits, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominated the membership of the power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids, and lionize instead the untidy entrepreneurialism of high-tech geeks like the young Bill Gates. We disdain order, and we cherish mess. Implicitly, we accept that the incivility and vulgarity which typify messy societies are a worthwhile trade-off for the liberation that such societies allow...
...military superpower and Europe "knits itself into another continental colossus." Shouldn't the U.S. be using its influence and diplomacy to rebuild relations with these rising powers to influence their evolution in ways favorable to American interests? Haughtily ignoring our traditional allies is shortsighted, naive and dangerous. James Ford Cooper Punta Gorda, U.S. Re Charles Krauthammer's views on going it alone: I would rather have friends willing to tell me I am about to make a grave mistake than have rubber-stamp yes-men. Tom Faulkner San Diego An Unkind Cut I found it offensive that in your section...
...military superpower and Europe "knits itself into another continental colossus." Shouldn't the U.S. be using its influence and diplomacy to rebuild relations with these rising powers to influence their evolution in ways favorable to American interests? Haughtily ignoring our traditional allies is shortsighted, naive and dangerous. JAMES FORD COOPER Punta Gorda...
...they spent heavily on the campaigns of their strongest political advocates. Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., a recipient of over $74,000 of auto industry donations from 1995 to 2000, led the fight against new rollover potential ratings for SUVs: a cause he dropped only after the Firestone-Ford debacle brought rollover tragedies to the forefront. When the House was still considering whether to fund the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the tobacco companies in 2000, the 207 House members who voted to block this funding received an average of five times more money from the tobacco...
Well, Ike is first. He's my hero. Roosevelt, of course. He was my Commander in Chief. And then the most underrated is probably Gerald Ford. Great ticket too, as you remember...