Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 11--Pusey issues a statement justifying the police action as "the only possible alternative" and attacking the University Hall occupies for their "dire assault upon the authority of the University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures."
I detected no willingness on the part of the hard-liners around the Cabinet table or in the NSC to risk international conflict or shed American blood over Poland, nor would any rational official have advocated such a policy. Rather, these men seemed to imagine that the U.S. could control...
In June 1982 the NSC considered pipeline sanctions. The Administration had come under heavy pressure from our European allies during the summit meeting of its leaders in Versailles earlier that month. I was fearful of the worst, but determined that the historical record would show that the State Department had...
As a Polish-born American, I want to add to your analysis of Chernenko. The new leader has a round face, indicating a stubbornness that is typical of a Russian peasant. In spite of this, people from this background are easier to negotiate with and to handle. They are emotional...
While Dallek incisively analyzes Reagan's symbolism, he does not, however, sufficiently show the connection between Reagan's values and what America thinks it needs. As other analysts have done less elegantly, Dallek depicts Reagan's symbolism as incredibly simplistic. But why has the sell worked? Here, Dallek is no...