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...recollections, which favor Frost and reticence. Still, she does not turn aside from what must be admitted about the man. When he was angry, she recalls, he would sometimes hide in the woods near his farmhouse, apparently hoping that his friends would think that he had come to harm. In the years after Elinor's death, she notes, "his incautious use of pills always stopped short of the ultimate message it was meant to convey...
...view of many members of the committee's majority, failure to impeach would do far greater harm to the nation's welfare than would the trauma of a Senate trial. Surprising his colleagues with the vehemence of his anti-Nixon stand, Republican Butler declared: "If we fail to impeach, we will have condoned and left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent with the reasonable expectations of the American people ... and we will have said to the American people, 'These deeds are inconsequential and unimportant...
Indeed, says Richard N. Gardner, a Columbia Law School professor and adviser to the State Department, "1974 represents a turning point in international relations. The global agenda is now more important than traditional foreign policies. If the law-of-the-sea conference fails, it will harm prospects for other international negotiations on food, population, energy, security, trade. Caracas is a test case for man kind's capacity to deal with global problems in a rational way." Says John R. Stevenson, chief of the U.S. delegation: "We all feel a sense of urgency...
...seemed to us that it was our decision and not the government's decision whether to bring that piece of material to the Supreme Court. The Court may have agreed it was frivolous or not significant. What would the harm have been? At least then the Supreme Court would have had it and with full knowledge. That was my state of mind at the time. I did not intend, and I certainly did not intend, to accuse a particular person of anything. I know the high regard with which you hold the United States Attorney's office...
Tampering with Shakespeare, trampling on Shakespeare can scarcely harm adult playgoers who know better. But what of the thousands of young students who are bused to Stratford each season...