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...transition, outlined the severe economic problems facing the nation, pledged to begin immediately the task of righting the economy, and claimed that government had long been the cause rather than the solution of problems. He concluded with a vintage Reagan evocation of the basic strengths of America and the heroism of its people...
Reagan was wrong in implying that Arlington National Cemetery is the soldier's burial place - Treptow is interred in Bloomer, Wis. - but right about his heroism. Treptow grew up in Bloomer and moved to Cherokee, Iowa, to work as a barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry...
...novelist, but all other work is trivial. In the work of a more rounded novelist, Willa Cather ... success is admired, but only success in the past: the new men that have arisen to seize it are grubby, narrow, without vision, unlike the heroic pioneer generation with its integrity, honor, heroism. William Faulkner turned in a similar performance in [several] of his novels, whose point was often that in contemporary life only the swinish succeed, that the day of the men of character is past...
...Year because he stands at the end of 1980 looking ahead, while the year behind him smolders in pyres. The events of any isolated year can be made to seem exceptionally grim, but one has to peer hard to find elevating moments in 1980. Only Lech Walesa's stark heroism in Poland sent anything resembling a thrill into the world. The national strike he led showed up Communism as a failure?a thing not done in the Warsaw Pact countries. Leonid Brezhnev, a different sort of strongman, had to send troops to Poland's borders, in case that country, like...
Viet Nam and was decorated for heroism, he made his biggest mark at various war colleges and in staff jobs where he showed a knack for handling people and grappling with the fine points of geopolitics. Kissinger then Nixon's National Security Adviser, chose Haig for his staff and came to value him as his most trusted aide. Critics say Haig became much too loyal when, on Kissinger's orders, he requested the FBI to put taps on the phones of 14 Government officials and three reporters, to try to discover how secret information was leaking...