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...contrast, last week's open letter sets up not a committee of investigation, but one of prevention. We trust that the letter represents a real change in stance from hindsight to foresight...
President Reagan's media manipulation and its complicity have preserved his popularity. Irangate threatens to crush it. In hindsight, an interesting question is which was more important to Reagan's popularity--his leadership or the media's complicity with it? In other words, who runs America during the mass media age, President or press...
...answer offers an absorbing new way of looking at events that have long since been submerged in myth and hindsight. In 1943, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, his mission seemed well-nigh impossible. Not only did he have to create an effective means of commanding a mixture of U.S. and British armed services, but he was also compelled to walk a narrow line between the differing objectives promoted by Roosevelt and Churchill. The decision to launch a huge invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on which the Allies uneasily agreed, implied...
...Fascists were victorious in Spain, and would remain so entrenched for fully 40 years. Hitler's Nuremberg laws ruled in Germany as he prepared for World War II. Mussolini made the trains run on time, but did little else that can be praised in the hindsight history affords...
...years before Harvard celebrated its centenary, independence was won in the colonies. In 1945, nine years after the Statue celebrated its 50th, the Allied armies in Europe and Asia made peace, at least temporarily, in the world. With hindsight, some events which have occured in the recent past may become more significant than they now seem...