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"This system, set up to protect the residents of this city, simply is not working. Whatever we do, we have to start immediately to out-maneuver these ingenious students," Frisoli said.
What made the Nixon Administration so "unAmerican" was its attempt to adjust to a world fundamentally different from our historical perception. The impulses to lurch toward either isolationism or global intervention had to be cured by making judgments according to some more permanent conception of national interest. It was no...
Like many self-made Texans he preferred the frontal assault to the indirect maneuver. He was convinced that the best way to transcend the malaise of Viet Nam was for our leaders to be visibly engaged in a tough defense of the American interest. He demonstrated immediately that the notorious...
"Field hockey is an active running game which provides the unique challenge, or maybe I should say limitation, of trying to maneuver a very small ball with only one side of a stick," Kellogg says.
And yet in 1970, for one of the few times in his presidency, Nixon threw sober calculation to the winds and pressed for a summit. Tormented by antiwar agitators, he thought he could paralyze them by a dramatic peace move. Meeting the Soviet leaders in the wake of our offensive...