Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jamaica Plain...
Typically, when President Nixon intervened, Daniel displayed no outrage. Nor did he consult anyone as to the course he should take or, once his decision was made, what he should say in the letter. He wrote it on plain stationery, without the Army letterhead...
...Plain Stationery. His was not an approach calculated to conciliate. He disdained the legal-fraternity camaraderie that many prosecutors and defense attorneys share. Still, he won the admiration of press and peers alike for his awesome summation...
...agree with your conception of the war in Indochina, and I join you in shuddering at the evil that our government is committing in the name of our country. Also it is plain that Kissinger is one of the key architects and administrators of the government's policy. The question is whether we should write him a letter, in the style that you have used. I think...
...plain fact is that our differences with him are not the sort of intellectual differences that can be resolved in a friendly chat. They are moral differences, and they run deep. He doesn't need us to explain to him what he has been doing. He knows. The trouble is that he thinks it was right. It is tempting to suppose that intelligent, personally amiable men cannot work in evil causes when their heads are clear and their eyes are open; but in fact they often do. There seems to be no simple relation between private and public morals...