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...Studies Department, however, one need not be in sympathy with the concept, one can even be a European historian with spurious credentials in Afro-American Studies a la Professor Lewis. It matters only that you be willing to serve--and in two departments at that, joint appointments being an implicit part of the bargain...
Ford pointed out that the U.S. is the world's leading food producer. "It has not," he said, "been our policy to use food as a political weapon despite the oil embargo and recent oil price and production decisions." Any implicit threat in that statement was softened by Ford's announcement that, despite inflated prices, the U.S. would increase food aid to developing nations. He did not, however, specify the amount of such aid. Almost as he spoke, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon was warning Congress that because of the impact of high oil prices...
...Americans do not assert their fundamental rights and insist on full disclosure of all material relevant to Watergate, they will have relinquished a right inherent in our concept of democracy. Accountability is implicit in the public's contract with any elected or appointed official. The public's right to know cannot be abridged-but it can be given up, if that's the way people want it. If the Watergate investigation is not allowed to continue to a final conclusion of complete disclosure, the scandal and its divisiveness will remain with us as long as we live...
With Haig's backing, St. Clair braced Nixon. Stressing the dire dangers, legal and political, in withholding the damaging information any longer, the lawyer urged its release. Implicit in St. Clair's appeal was the threat that he would have to resign from the Nixon defense if his advice was not taken. Fatalistically, Nixon finally concurred. "What's done is done," he said...
...putdowns may be born of an admirable zeal to avoid mouthing hypocrisy and cant. On the other hand, cynicism-or la belle indifference, as Muggeridge would have it-can be a pose too. For the fact implicit in the very act of writing his autobiography is Muggeridge's assumption that the reader will find neither his life nor his account of it a waste of time. And he is right on both counts...