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...would get back home." They saw Nixon for half an hour. As with U.S.-Soviet relations, Nixon explained, consensus is probably impossible. Still, he said, the mutual goal is to keep the peace, so grounds for accommodation can and must be found. His startling analogy brought to mind the Kerner Commission's prediction that the U.S. will split into "two societies...
...overnight if all Negroes turned white. Besides, most of them prefer black neighborhoods. Prejudice is no longer the key obstacle to decent living conditions: after all, they prefer to spend their money on things other than good housing. We'd all be much better off if groups like the Kerner Commission stopped overemphasizing racism...
Commissions fall roughly into three categories. There are the well-publicized ad hoc groups, like the Warren or Kerner commissions, that address themselves to some dramatic national issue. There are the statutory commissions that serve as more or less permanent adjuncts to the Federal Government; the President's Science Advisory Committee is an example. Finally, there are the commissions that attend to business that established branches of Government consider too tiresome or time-consuming to be bothered with. In 1955, for instance, a commission was set up to find a suitable monument for President Franklin Roosevelt; it is still...
...effect of masking the popular consciousness of evil. Traditionally, evil has been something distant, Wholly Other, rather than an enemy within. When Rap Brown complained that "violence is as American as cherry pie," most Americans dismissed the charge as the aberrant nastiness of a Black Power fanatic. When the Kerner Commission proposed that America was a racist nation, the U.S. public reacted with "Who, me?" protests of innocence. But there is a dark underside to American history: the despoliation of the Indian, the subjection of the black, the unwise and probably unmoral insistence on the enemy's unconditional surrender...
Police were circling the area in unmarked cars and motorcycles. Following the recommendations of the Walker and Kerner Reports, police maintained minimum visibility and maximum numbers. They did not mass in sufficient numbers to stop the mob, which had apparently surprised the police by fleeing quickly from Lincoln Park...