Word: pledgees
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Though Homer called herself "an extremely strong supporter of Israel." she said her contact during the trip with Eastern European and Middle Eastern leaders showed her that "on balance, there was considerably more to be lost' if the United States rerieged on President Reagan's pledge of the AWACS.
After months of indecision, for example, the President finally came out for a diluted version of the Voting Rights Act, even though that 1965 statute is a symbol of modern emancipation for blacks and Hispanics. At the same time that he was demanding budget cuts in social programs, he allowed...
As Rosenman labored on, sourly wondering from time to time whether the speech would ever be delivered, he did not realize that he had somehow happened upon the phrase that was to name a whole era and a whole philosophy of American Government. "I had not the slightest idea that...
Apart from specific programs, Roosevelt represented three innovations in the basic public philosophy. One is that the Constitution's pledge to "promote the general welfare" gives the Federal Government not merely a right but a duty to intervene in all substantive aspects of economic life. The second is that...
In domestic affairs, Koivisto tends to be austerity-minded (he calls himself a conservative Social Democrat). In foreign affairs, he is expected to do nothing to alter the foundation of his nation's policy: its close working relationship with the Soviet Union, an intimacy that has made "Finlandization" an...