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...punishment." To make such a move palatable to those who believe that justice should be evenhanded, President Ford should couple amnesty for Mr. Nixon with amnesty for the thousands of Viet Nam-era draft evaders still at large. Let us err on the side of mercy. Unless this quarrel between the past and the present is quelled, we shall lose the future...
...loud quarrel also appears to be developing over Pentagon purchases of an other important weapon, the Trident atomic-powered submarine. In July, the Navy ordered the first of the mammoth subs from General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division for $285.4 million, the highest price the Defense Department has ever paid for a single item. Last week Defense confirmed that it had acted over the objections of the Navy's director of procurement, Gordon W. Rule...
...President can be overthrown? On the contrary: it was Nixon himself who foreshortened the constitutional process out of a realization that the case against him was overwhelming. By resigning, he conceded the inevitability of impeachment and conviction. Anyone who argues that Nixon was hounded unjustly from office has a quarrel not with Nixon's enemies but with the U.S. Constitution, for the Constitution would have done the work that Nixon chose to do himself...
...commended for your excellent article on leadership in America. One cannot quarrel with the list of 200 potential leaders you have selected. I'm sure that a great deal of research and soul searching went into your selection. One cannot help wondering, however, if this list had been drawn up five years ago, would we not have seen on it such names as John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Charles Colson, Frederick C. LaRue, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
Thus, philosophically, he is not likely to quarrel with the present direction of Administration policy. But he will probably work for a shift in emphasis. As a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, Greenspan once summed up what he believed were the three key elements in economic management: "The budget, the budget and the budget." Greenspan will probably push strongly for a sterner approach to reducing Government spending. To him, almost every budget item-Social Security and health and welfare payments, military outlays, crop supports-should be considered for pruning...