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...claims to be an analysis of Castro's actions, it never quite says that Castro wanted to secure complete personal power. Occasionally, however, the choice of words and the method of argument indicate that Draper thinks Castro did deceive his democratic followers. An author's personal opinions need not impair an academic analysis, but in this book they do. Draper is so convinced of Castro's commitment to personal hegemony that he never even considers whether Castro might have been satisfied with less. Some leaders of nationalistic revolutions have clung desperately to power, others have not. Therefore, political analysts cannot...
...enemies of the bill claim that it will impair Congressional jurisdiction over public lands. The opposite is true. Since all the areas to comprise the Wilderness System have been closed to commercial exploitation by Executive decrees, Congress exercises no direct control. Under the current measure, Congress would gain a veto over each separate area the President proposes for inclusion in the Wilderness System. The opponents actual, but unstated, objection is that this procedure bypasses the Interior Committee. They know that the votes for a floor veto would be hard for them to muster...
...extending the draft, but he changed his mind in September 1941, when he exhorted the Congress to show a ''unity of purpose'' behind the President. To disavow or oppose F.D.R.'s policies now, cried Dirksen, "could only weaken the President's position, impair our prestige and imperil the nation." He foresaw even then the need for some kind of postwar rehabilitation program, and years later, when the Marshall Plan and other aid proposals were submitted to the Hill, Dirksen supported them strongly...
President had its limits. On any issue apt seriously to impair Germany's relations with its other Western partners, Adenauer would find a huge majority against him in the Bundestag, including not only the Socialist opposition and the Free Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...
After the Smashup. In pursuing two admirable ends that businessmen might easily approve-price stability and increased investment-the Administration has thus managed to bring hostility and suspicion upon itself and to impair the confidence of the business community. That impairment was symbolized when the stock market plunge more than wiped out the Dow-Jones average's entire gain from the late "Kennedy bull market...