Word: goodnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transcripts usually offer summaries and not verbatim reports of Ike's conversations (the whereabouts of the actual tapes today are unknown), they do shed fascinating light on his opinions of Nixon and the game of politics. Eisenhower pointedly omitted Nixon's name when discussing those he considered good future Republican presidential material. And in a late 1954 conversation with U.P.I. White House Correspondent Merriman Smith, Ike complained that the worst part of his job was ''accommodating yourself to values and considerations that fundamentally you can't fully accept...
This is not a final destination, but it's a good milestone along the way. And even if the autonomy talks fail, about 90% of what I am describing we could do unilaterally. There never would have been open bridges between Israel and Jordan if we had waited for King Hussein's signature; not even Henry Kissinger could have negotiated that one. The Palestinians want peace and they're ripe for some kind of settlement. I'm convinced it can be done...
...state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren was skeptical of traditional authority, Burger is usually respectful of it. But he can be unpredictable: he wrote the first Supreme Court opinion (Reed vs. Reed in 1971) in the line of cases giving women constitutional protection against discrimination...
Time was when campus boozing was regarded as good clean fun. But no more...
Still, Fraser has a yen to see European-style ''co-determination'' spread in the U.S. In West Germany, Sweden and Denmark, workers sit on supervisory boards. Studies suggest that they have little impact on corporate policy-for good or ill. Notes one German industrialist...