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...makes a better excuse. As Winston Churchill once remarked, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Nowadays public figures are confronted with the problem of telling the truth or lying in a way that never faced Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. Before congressional committees or television interviewers they face cameras, instant answers are demanded, and the pictorial proof of what is said goes into the files to haunt them. In the Westmoreland trial, McNamara was a reluctant witness; for 13 years previously as head of the World Bank he ducked discussing...
...founding fathers put little faith in the stability of banks. Wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816: "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Andrew Jackson, who never concealed his distrust of powerful moneymen, told a group of them, "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout...
More important than anything else is how an aging but renewed Ronald Reagan reads his own country. Every great President has been a great politician-Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy-even George Washington, who lived before the age of party politics. They could tell by political instinct how far and how fast they could lead their own people. This will be the test of a second Reagan Administration: its reading of the forces that underlay its election...
Americans liked to defend their forthright manners in those heady early years by insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving...
...china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. On a clear autumn day the air seems to rustle with the presidential whispers that have changed history...