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...President has not perceived that the tactics he mastered so well the Senate are not applicable to his dealings with the nation's press. On Capitol Hill he dealt with a group that accepted his strategems and was powerless to affect his Texas political fortunes. In the White House he must deal with the nation's press, not a group of colleagues. And he must also remember, although it rankles him, that what is written about him, and what is suppressed, sometime may shape as much public opinion as all those somber, reassuring speeches...
...nationalism has cooled, after the adolescence of the underdeveloped countries succumbs to maturity, some form of union may be the answer to many of the problems of today's young nations. Some day there could even be something like a United States of Africa. The new nations-powerless, bothersome and somewhat bizarre as many of them seem-will continue to proliferate for a long time. It seems inevitable that, at some point, the flow will have to be reversed, bringing to federations of small nations the stature in world affairs to which at present they can only vainly aspire...
...have changed, but the battles go on. There are now three political power spheres that are almost bound to collide in their rush to try to fill the post-Franco vacuum. Strangely enough, the Movimiento Nacional is not one of them. It has been reduced by Franco to a powerless bureaucracy, without credo and virtually without following, deprived even of the fascist ideals on which it was founded...
Emerson missed the point. The essay was the strong call of one invincible conscience, and it took the measure of any strong conscience's invincibility. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly," Thoreau wrote, "the true place for a just man is also a prison. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose...
...affair is regarded as a case study in academic politics. As in any politics the fate of a proposal depends not only on what its substance is, but on who does the proposing. The sponsors of the senior seminar plan were drawn from the Department's virtually powerless junior faculty, while the men who came up with the idea of junior generals were all established senior faculty members. Small wonder, then, that the tutors' initiative took a form that they had never intended...