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Well, why not? For one thing it does not seem to be Nixon's nature to offer bold leadership at home. He is too cautious, too prudent, too indebted to the interests that are satisfied with things as they are. Nixon's closest domestic advisers are forever searching for political openings that they can exploit; to some of them, the care and feeding of the nation are almost incidental. There is no White House counselor on U.S. matters with the intelligence and skill of Kissinger, a phenomenon seldom seen in U.S. Government. The President needs half a dozen...
...antiwar demonstrators chose to break down the fence, chop up the asphalt and plant shrubbery and flowers. Slowly students and townspeople drifted back into the park; they set up a recycling center to collect bottles and cans, and settled down to enjoy the spring air. This time reaction was prudent. The cops ignored the occupation and Chancellor Albert Bowker seems not to want to press the issue...
Emphasizing the dour mood of Northern Ireland's Protestants, the leader of the militant Ulster Vanguard movement, William Craig, last week warned: "It would be prudent for loyalists not to ignore the possibility of civil war." Another cause of Protestant restlessness was a new I.R.A. policy of attacking targets in Protestant areas. Last week, for instance, from hiding places in Catholic areas, I.R.A. snipers killed a 15-year-old Protestant youth and wounded four factory workers. In the House of Commons, Whitelaw charged that the I.R.A. was deliberately trying to provoke the Protestants into counterattacks on Catholic areas, which...
...President's path is the path of national insanity. The invocation of national honor over pathetically misjudged stakes has been tried before. The invocation of support for the presidency has been tried before. The conscious invocation of superpower collision has heretofore been carefully avoided by proud but prudent men. But national honor is not what beleaguered presidents define it to be; it is greater and more enduring. And blind support for presidents is at the very taproot of our continuing Indochina calamity. As for conscious invocation of superpower collision, that is a course totally unjustified by the stakes...
...Prudent who is Patient is the motto of the British House of Leicester. So patient was the second Earl of Leicester that he spent all of his 67 years in the House of Lords waiting for something to say. His son, the third Earl was equally silent for 32 years. The fourth Earl kept up the family tradition, but the legendary Leicester patience has at last run out. The present Earl, 63-year-old Thomas William Edward Coke has risen after only 22 years of silence to make his maiden speech. His subject: pollution. "I hope we shall use safer...