Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot remember ever having read a more objective and fairer story on any subject. While Muskie comes off with banners flying, you let Humphrey, Nixon and Agnew take it on their chins for their shortcomings, but you do not neglect to also point out the good points that these men enjoy. Whoever loses the election, it will not be your fault...
...days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. Let me be very clear about this: the next President must take an activist view of his office. He must articulate the nation's values, define its goals and marshal its will. Under a Nixon Administration, the presidency will be deeply involved in the entire sweep of America's public concerns. The President today cannot stand aside from crisis; he cannot ignore division; he cannot paper over disunity. He must lead...
...Administration, and not only by an Administration, but by a Government. The President's chief function is to lead, not to administer; it is not to oversee every detail, but to put the right people in charge, to provide them with basic guidance and direction, and to let them do the job. This requires surrounding the President with men of stature, including young men, and giving them responsibilities commensurate with that stature. Officials of a new Administration will not have to check their consciences at the door or leave their powers of independent judgment at home...
Like Gettysburg, El Alamein and other classic engagements, the Battle of Chicago seems destined to be endlessly refought. Unlike most textbook conflicts, however, no one can agree upon who won, let alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
...houses are probably the most shocking part. In the 1930's, in the depths of the depression, James Agee and Walker Evans went to Alabama to photograph and write about Southern rural poverty. Several of the buildings in the picture section of their book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, still exist. Thirty years of occupancy have not improved the buildings. And where the buildings are different from the ones Agee and Evans saw, they are not much better...