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...been both president of the Carnegie Foundation (1955-65) and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under Johnson. A fellow at the Kennedy School of Government for a year and the Godkin lecturer here two years ago, Gardner is also well-connected and much admired in the liberal Eastern establishment which holds the final power over the choice of a president. This is perhaps one reason why his name keeps cropping up on the Harvard lists...
...been both president of the Carnegie Foundation (1955-65) and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under Johnson. A fellow at the Kennedy School of Government for a year and the Godkin lecturer here two years ago, Gardner is also well-connected and much admired in the liberal Eastern establishment which holds the final power over the choice of a president. This is perhaps one reason why his name keeps cropping up on the Harvard lists...
Appropriately enough, then, Richard Crossman has become a power theorist. The Godkin Lectures glorified the consolidation in the British polity, but they cast a wistful sidelong glance at the American courts and Constitution. "The British need more rule of law, not less." Corpsman wished to clarify the advantages of the federal system and written constitutions. Laws and courts could defend the public from a grasping bureaucracy...
...secret" which Crossman finds so admirable-leaves the British people defenseless before the government. No Supreme Court, no legislature. The voter must count upon the ideology of the governing party. The heavy programmatic content of British politics, said Crossman, rescues the ministry from the amoral exercise of power. The Godkin Lectures keyed on personal and party power: the ideological restrictions on its use seemed almost an after-thought. But in The New Fabiun Essays, Crossman analyzed the pitfalls of pragmatism. It is direction-less-ideology begins where pragmatism fails. He could say, therefore, without embarrassment: "I love power, but power...
...parliaments, and monarchy lacked the substance of power. Crossman wished to strip government of the Noble Lie and confront his audience with the garish clanking of the party machine. He may even have wished to demonstrate the drawbacks of the British system to Anglophile political scientists. But, as the Godkin series proceeded, he showed much affection for that "efficient secret" and an alarming distaste for constitutional limits on executive power...