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...illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...appears that in the Rev. Jerry Falwell we might have a potential "Christian Khomeini" on our hands. If Mr. Falwell's philosophy were to prevail, what would happen to teachers, preachers and politicians whose points of view differ from his? What would become of schools and textbooks not in harmony with his theology or political philosophy...
...views but the difficulty faced by the Chief Executive in making his views prevail. The administrative practices of the Nixon Administration were unwise and not sustainable in the long run; fairness requires an admission that they did not take place in a vacuum...
Richard Nixon was President when the conventional wisdom decried the exercise of power; his critics asserted that America would prevail if at all because of the purity of its motives. But it was precisely the unpredictable, idiosyncratic nature of a policy founded on this illusion that needed to be overcome. Emotional slogans, unleavened by a concept of the national interest, had caused us to oscillate between excesses of isolation and overextension. The new "morality" was supposed to extricate us from excessive commitments. But moral claims lent themselves as easily to crusades as to abstinence; they had involved...
...would be likely to deter massive violations. We had no illusions about Hanoi's long-term goals. Nor did we go through the agony of four years of war and searing negotiations simply to achieve a "decent interval" for our withdrawal. We were determined to enable Saigon to prevail if assaulted. But for the collapse of executive authority as a result of Watergate and congressional refusal to provide adequate aid to Saigon, I believe we would have succeeded...