Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of the Nobel Prizes in the physical sciences. But there are still too few people at work on basic research (fewer than 30,000, or 4% of U.S. scientists and engineers). What can be done about it? "Regimented research would be, for us, catastrophe," said the President."We must search out the talented individual and cultivate in all American life a heightened appreciation of the importance of excellence and high standards . . . We must be willing to match our increasing investments in material resources with increasing investments in men." One concrete proposal: establishment of a hall of fame...
WHAT brought about Congress' decline? The underlying factor, says Burnham, has been the 20th century trend toward what he calls "de mocratism"-democracy carried to the extreme of insisting that the national government must directly represent the majority will. And ultimately, democratism leads to "Caesarism," with a national election amounting to little more than a nationwide plebiscite giving a leader (Napoleon, Hitler) an "unrestricted proxy...
Harry Truman carried the trend onward with his seizure of the steel mills in April 1952. President Truman, Burnham notes, never cited any specific law for the seizure, claimed only-with precise democratist logic-that the President "represents the interest of all the people," and must "use his powers to safeguard the nation" when Congress fails to act (an argument rejected by the Supreme Court). The explanation reminds Burnham of the doctrine of Salus populi suprema lex esto (The people's welfare is the highest law), an excuse for tyranny under the Roman Caesars...
...patronage-controlling Governor's chair, parlayed it into a U.S. Senate seat (1939-45) and then-after a showboating interlude as baseball high commissioner (1945-51)-stormed back home by 1955 to take the chair back from his enemies. To become the Democratic nominee for President, Happy must nominate his own successor, and through him establish control of the state delegation to the National Democratic Convention...
...Depending on the color of your uniform, you follow a different party line. There is something fishy about that. I think we would be better off if we all wore the same uniform. You have three outfits that feel they must each defend the U.S. all by themselves." What if the Air Force got the Navy's strategic submarine-borne Polaris missile? "Immaterial . . I believe that one organization should be responsible for the offensive forces...