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Cloverleaf Visions. Today fumes from the internal-combustion engine and the fuel crisis seem to have America by the throat and pocketbook. Mass transit in most large cities is in a state of near collapse. Assessed with hindsight at such a time, Robert Moses' life and works sound baneful indeed. But as Caro himself points out, Moses was a visionary. He anticipated the onrush of the automobile age long before it came and tried to do something about it. When he started building public parks, nobody else was doing it, and his idea that they should be recreation areas...
...President is a scenario that almost shatters the mind. By the best accounts, Melvin Laird played a key role in persuading Nixon that Connally was too recently a Republican convert and too ambitious for the presidency to win Congress's approval as Vice President. From the vantage of hindsight, thanks, Mel. We didn't need that...
...Linus Pauling got rid of the Common Cause a couple of years ago. And if conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely to hold the line against further advances by the left, but to carry the battle over to the offensive." Then...
With the clarity of hindsight, economists now generally agree that the horrendous price spiral was all but guaranteed in 1973 by a combination of bad luck and policy mistakes by the Administration. For one thing, the economy whooshed into 1973 at a blistering, inflation-generating pace. The main propellant was the immense buying power that resulted from lavish Government spending and the Federal Reserve Board's startlingly openhanded money policy during the presidential election year of 1972. Yet one of the Nixon Administration's first acts in January was to replace the relatively successful Phase II wage-price...
...After the two lines crossed in the mid-'60s, the difference had to be made up by imports, with an ever-increasing percentage coming from Arab countries that disagreed with American policy toward Israel. The possibility of a cutoff was thereafter always present and predictable, and in hindsight, it is clear that the U.S. failed on every level to prepare...