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...held our presses until Tuesday, July 9, so we could report that day's proclamation of the Declaration of Independence???which Congress had voted the previous Thursday ?in front of George Washington and his troops in New York. Any event that happened after that, we could not have known, but we made use of later documents in which actors in the drama of 1776 wrote their recollections...
There, without dissent, the disparate colonies of America at last took the step that severed their 169-year-old political ties with the mother country, proclaiming that they "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." Independence???the process as painful and bloody as birth?represents a unique historic experiment, a visionary gamble that a various people can literally will themselves into a separate political being on a new continent. Boston's John Adams is already predicting exultantly: "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America...
...reasons the President's first energy program was so lackluster is that a comprehensive study?Project Independence???had not been completed prior to the message. In contrast to Richard Nixon, who liked to rush up instant cures for maximum effect, Ford prefers to analyze a problem systematically, however deliberate his pace. As the recession deepened, he continued to listen and prepare for more expansionist policies, as some of his advisers urged. To his credit, he continued to take sometimes uncongenial action against inflation. He pocket-vetoed the cargo preference bill, which would have vastly increased the price...
More important than its value as a fighting ally and a site for American bases was the fact that?after 48 years of American occupation and two decades of independence???the Philippine Republic endures as Asia's freest democracy. It is no "showcase," to be sure, but it stands as a model of hope for all of non-Communist Southeast Asia: from the introverted Burma of Neutralist General Ne Win to the bankrupt chaos of Suharto's Indonesia; from royalist Thailand through Malaysia to trifurcated Laos; and certainly to South Viet Nam itself...
...rival Senator Glass with a demonstration of the House's enthusiasm for the bill?whether its members understood it or not. The House made a few concessions to country bankers, self-righteously struck out one of the best features?pensions for Federal Reserve Board members to insure their independence???and left it to the Senate to put the bill in shape...