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...didn't happen because the cadets are too bright to believe that the goals of U.S. policy are always benevolent. They know that self-interest necessarily plays a pare in foreign policy formulation...
...Congress sensed the trap, but many members regarded the President's proposal as a domestic version of the blank-check Gulf of Tonkin resolution, one that could only result in further reducing the legislative branch's already badly eroded constitutional powers. Refusing to part with, or even pare Congress's prerogative to determine appropriations, a coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans handily defeated the measure in the Senate...
...fiscal 1974, which starts next July 1, Budget Director Caspar ("Cap The Knife") Weinberger is roughing out a plan to hold spending to $262.5 billion, though he is likely to wind up at $265 billion. That would further pare the deficit to around $15 billion. More than that, it would bring expenditures into approximate balance with the revenues that the tax system would generate if the economy were operating at full employment. Although federal spending would climb about $15 billion from this fiscal year, the increase would be entirely accounted for by rises, already dictated by law, in Social Security...
...were no formal staff meetings, no requests to check people out. I take the blame for not setting up a committee on selection. I should have thought of that." McGovern's key staff and advisers met for four hours, recalls Gary Hart, to "consider every legitimate name and pare down to a list of no more than six." At first there were about 30 names. Most were politicians, but the list also included John Gardner of Common Cause, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, even Walter Cronkite...
Haussmann had taste as well as authority. His successors often lack his sense of design. Most of the new buildings are as bland and expressionless as a child's wooden blocks. (The new sports stadium at Pare des Princes in Boulogne is an exception.) Commented L'Express: "There is no excuse for the wretchedness of French architecture...