Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Father. Her younger sister, Li Min, has been on the revolutionary stage only since last summer. A member of the Science and Technological Commission, she co-authored a Red Guard wall poster denouncing Marshal Nieh Jung-chen, commonly thought to head China's nuclear program. His crime, in Li Min's book, was sheltering "renegades" and "capitalist-readers...
...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
Evil Wind. Less political-minded than the other proletarian princesses, but perhaps as prominent, is Lin Toutou, daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind...
...Casting. There is much that needs to be explained and understood. The Chicago riots were entirely different from uprisings in the ghettos. Those were spontaneous, disorganized, racial. Chicago, in fact, was a formal, prearranged confrontation between the Old and New Politics. Central Casting could have produced no better field marshal for the Old Politics army. Like some 18th century European general, Mayor Daley chose the place of battle, formed his battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders-Tom Hayden...