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...never approved of my fancy apartment or my having a valet at the age of 23. And since he still wore baggy, ready-made suits from Sears, Roebuck, my custom-made clothes also offended his sense of prudent frugality...
Reagan is careful, however, not to attack such New Deal programs as Social Security and unemployment insurance, which are now taken for granted and have large constituencies. There are prudent limits to his assault on Big Government. That is the lesson of the 1964 disaster, when Goldwater went down to resounding defeat after a defiantly conservative campaign that included talk of abolishing the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Efforts to remedy these Western deficits have appeared indecisive: the on-again-off-again neutron bomb, the debate over the stationing of middle-range missiles in Western Europe. Some Washington officials accuse the Europeans of timidity, but Europeans are more inclined to see their caution as a prudent response to the changing balance of power. Says France's Aron: "When Jimmy Carter says the U.S. is the world's greatest military power, nobody believes him because it is not true." West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has told aides, "If the Americans want to be convincing, they...
...Soviet official recently: "At least we can be confident that Reagan would not invite Brzezinski to stay in the White House." As though to encourage just that sort of thinking in Moscow, Allen says, "While Reagan would be firm toward the Soviets, he would also be consistent and prudent; he would not be truculent or confrontational...
Many supporters of the crown found it prudent to flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard...