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...think they have been very minimal. It's pretty hard for me to make an analysis of what could have been done to prevent the unfortunate Watergate situation. Some people say he should not have set up the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. In hindsight, you can make a good argument for that...
President Nixon admitted that he had ignored "staff warning signals" of Watergate cover-up attempts. "With hindsight, it is apparent that I should have given more heed to warning signals I received along the way about the coverup," he said in a statement on Tuesday...
...polished literature, they may leave something to be desired; but as a lesson in prophetic hindsight, McCall's offered a sample of poems written by entertainers when they were too young to know better. From a twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught...
What lessons in hindsight does Halberstam learn? The "national security" policymakers, he concludes, have constituted a club, a dangerously self-perpetuating Establishment, an inner Government confident of its expertise and zealous to guard itself by secrecy and quick retaliation from the democratic uses of criticism...
...that Hungarians, Slavs and other national groups would rise up at home if nationalist movements were not stopped abroad. America recognizes that its domestic stability and standard of living depend on a peaceful system of world domination. The irony, of course, is that Metternich failed, and that with historical hindsight, we can see that his failure was inevitable. Social and economic conditions had outdated the political structures of the Old Regime aristocracy. An unusually intelligent man. Metternich apparently realized the foregone failure of his enterprise. Yet he continued crafting his policies and killing his opponents as a stalling device, knowing...