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Because the book also takes up the authors' beliefs about how so many historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities...
...proud of his political shrewdness, the President as revealed in the transcript was frequently slow to grasp the full seriousness of the Watergate matter, and he gravely misread the public mood on several important points...
...certainly did not see the situation that way as he presented his case for evading the court's directives. Citing "this critical hour" in world affairs, Nixon argued that "there are those in the international community who may be tempted by our Watergate-related difficulties at home to misread America's unity and resolve in meeting the challenges we confront abroad." The Middle East crisis, he contended, made it imperative that the lingering tapes controversy be settled promptly...
...Regarding your article "Sex and Mao at Princeton" [April 30], I was sorry to note that you seem to have misread the introduction to the birth control handbook as myopically as Mr. Buckley. The booklet does denounce birth control, but not birth control as we know it, through contraception. The booklet denounces birth control through such methods as India's "voluntary" (i.e., paid) sterilization by surgery, a practice that was used as a "preventive measure" against hereditary mental defectiveness in some states in this country at the outset of this century...
Anomaly. The question of a mandate will persist. Will the election of 1972 be remembered as an extravagant anomaly, an essentially reluctant landslide? McGovern, who had profoundly misread the temper of the American people, seized what is still the majority party and drove millions of Democrats, many of them unwillingly, to Nixon. But many are uneasy there as well, and it is not likely that they will find a permanent home there. Thus Nixon's mandate is indeed major, but, like all democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains...