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...that words like rights and liberty play prominent parts in those Mobil Oil ads in the Times, no accident that the defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...
...more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they faced, but he was able to recommend just the sort of protector they wanted. No fast-talking, hard-driving angle bender, their choice instead was a lawyer who started practicing only five years ago and who acknowledges, "I'm middleaged, somewhat overweight and a Jewish mother...
...would be charged with heavy-handed intervention in the Middle East during a time of uncertainty. For that reason, the Pentagon tried to play down the importance of the maneuvers. Said a spokesman: "It is a normal exercise, long planned." Although they view the U.S. as the ultimate protector of their oil wells, most of the moderate gulf states were concerned that the military maneuver would be exploited by Arab radicals to increase political instability. The states also viewed the maneuvers as an escalation of superpower involvement in the region, one that could trigger a Soviet response. Oman did agree...
...strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people all right, but thought a powerful government, wrested away from the interests, was the only sure protector of the people. (Teddy Roosevelt 100 years later was still fuming about Jefferson's foreign policy: "a discredit to my country.") Woodrow Wilson made scholarly attempts to rescue Jefferson from the presidential scrap heap. It was left to Franklin Roosevelt, no scholar but a superb manager of political stage effects...
Some of the new Eisenhower literature goes much beyond a claim that he did nothing harmful. In Eisenhower the President, William Ewald Jr., one of his speech writers, contends that Ike was a masterly administrator and a subtle protector of presidential authority and options, with a sure instinct for when finally to commit. He also argues that the legislative record was at least as constructive as that of various "activist" Administrations of the recent past. All in all, says Ewald, "eight good years-I believe the best in memory...