Word: instinctiveness
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Presidents had to move on instinct. And with every President since Harry Truman, when the orders went out and the troops moved, the U.S. was very much by itself. "Where are my friends?" Lyndon Johnson used to wonder on many a night when he was bogged down in Viet Nam after having been urged on by Asian allies. Richard Nixon, once described as being tougher than a boiled owl, knew better. He never expected much help in anything...
...What do you think of breakfast?" the man from Fast Food World demanded. "There are certain stores where I don't think breakfast would be appropriate, where they wouldn't serve to increase usage." Thomas answered. "But my own instinct is, and I can't give you any data on it, is that someday we will have breakfast...
...communist party, the history of the resistance, they memorize long lists of names and dates, and finally in high school they study both Italian and European history with great thoroughness. As a result the interaction between a society and its culture is something that they have a basic instinct for. Americans, when they start to study European culture have no historical foundation at all on which to build. This is a fundamental problem which Harvard ignores almost completely. Again it is paradoxical that such a brilliant department--which makes Harvard one of the best places in the world to study...
...Senate, Baker has aimed with a Tennessee marksman's instinct for the middle of most domestic political issues. He favors a constitutional amendment to achieve a balanced budget, but he also wants a provision to authorize deficit spending by a two-thirds vote of Congress. He backs the Equal Rights Amendment, but he voted against extending the deadline for ratification. He supported most civil rights legislation and sponsored clean air and water bills that created extensive new Government regulations. Today he is a staunch opponent of Big Government and excessive regulation. In foreign policy issues, Baker has taken independent...
...letters? "It is an old-fashioned term that irritates me," he says. "I didn't set out to be a man of letters. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, because of the travel. But I had no sense of news; I would miss it by divine instinct...