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Another Columbia historian, Henry Graff, a specialist on the presidency, noted that some Presidents have been popular because they were father figures, like Eisenhower, or brother figures, like Kennedy, but "Carter seems like one of the boys on the corner. He doesn't appear to understand what leadership is. Making a change in his style is like a zebra opting to have spots instead of stripes-it doesn't make a significant difference...
...sense, the formal foreign policy lessons that the U.S. learned from Viet Nam have been easier to absorb than the deeper psychological and personal meanings, which will be years in unfolding. Says Columbia University Historian Henry Graff: "America has learned for the first time that not everything it attempts comes off successfully. What we regarded as decency, honor and pride were not implemented in the world satisfactorily to make others see us as we thought we ought to be seen. That this could have happened to us is what The Deer Hunter is really all about...
...adds ideas of his own, hones the arguments and choices from the perspective of his experience in Lyndon Johnson's Pentagon (in which he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense), always emphasizing practicality and erring, if at all, on the side of caution. Says Columbia History Professor Henry Graff: "Vance is a practitioner of turtle diplomacy." Graff defines this as the art of gradual but persistent pushing toward long-term goals. He adds: "Carter could learn a lot from him?...
...Graffs gloomy view, "Man is by nature a predatory animal?he uses what's available." He contends that waste has been built into the values of an ever-expanding American economy. In the past, technology provided answers for the problems it created. Now Graff fears that there may be no wondrous new energy source when the old forms...
...relations man with a sweet tooth for talk, exhorts his shy furniture-mover friend Alvin (Lenny Baker) to spice up his "mutual love experience" by moving an added woman into his marital chamber. Wally's personal idea of fulfillment is to appropriate Alvin's wife Cleo (Ilene Graff). Alvin, who sometimes makes Buster Keaton seem voluble, gulps, but broaches the proposal to Cleo...