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...lost all patience and appointed Ambrose Burnside to take McClellan's place. With even less agility, Burnside also snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at Fredericksburg, where a correspondent observed that "it can hardly be in human nature for men to show more valor, or generals to manifest less judgment...
...energy is being diverted and our idealism is being sapped by a war that seems to transgress our cherished tradition of prudence and decency. Much of our energy has been turned toward destruction, and the more generous and noble impulses of our people have been given little room to manifest themselves...
Iron Mike's Domain. Few men understand the problems and profit of this kind of U.S. manifest destiny better than the short (5 ft. 8 in.), bald, square-jawed chairman and chief executive of the world's biggest oil company, Standard Oil of New Jersey.*He is 63-year-old Michael Lawrence Haider (rhymes with strider), and he views the world from a 29th-floor office in midtown Manhattan's RCA Building...
...addition, McCarthy said, "there is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America-discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest. I am hopeful that this challenge may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government...
...Release. The change in his own view was manifest. In June 1966, after the U.S. attacked oil dumps around Hanoi and Haiphong, McNamara predicted "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." By the following January, he was telling Congress: "I don't believe that the bombing up to the present has significantly reduced-nor any bombing that I could contemplate in the future would seriously reduce-the actual flow of men and materiel to the South...