Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans want a change. To have Richard Nixon win by such a small percentage of votes at a time when Americans are drastically searching for new leadership shows the fantastic amount of hate this country has for that...
...JOHN GARDNER: Very few of our most prominent people take a really large view of the leadership assignment. Most of them are simply tending the machinery of that part of society to which they belong. The machinery may be a great corporation or a great government agency or a great law practice or a great university. These people may tend it very well indeed, but they are not pursuing a vision of what the total society needs. They have not developed a strategy as to how it can be achieved, and they are not moving to accomplish...
...faith than on sound strategy. Local regulatory agencies can hardly match the financial or legal power of corporations that value profit more than zoning, productivity more than preserving jobs. Regulation of corporate giants may require government that is equally powerful. Moreover C. Wright Mills may be right. Intertwined leadership in government and business may make impossible any serious regulation of industrial expansion. Further, to finance regulatory programs will require an active Congress. There is little hope of changing the conservative legislative balance so long as Congressional races are decided more often on personality or local economics than on national issues...
Idealism is for Goodwin an eminently practical force. A party whose policy is generous and purposeful, whose leadership is high-minded rather than cynical--such a party, he thinks, would move people to action. "Optimism is grounded in the fact that people, if offered that kind of leadership, will respond...
...always wanted to write a play about the Pope and Galileo," Goodwin continues, "in which the Pope emerges as the hero. What difference does it make that we know the earth moves around the sun if it destroys our faith?" Technology must be accepted, but to generate the leadership and community organization capable of its control is the purpose of Richard Goodwin's rhetorical flourishes...