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...Among America's greatest strengths is its capacity for renewal; it has shed its skin again and again to re-emerge with new life. It rebuilt itself after the Civil War and Reconstruction; it reformed itself after the cruelties of the 19th century industrial surge and the excesses of the robber barons; it picked itself up after the Great Depression; it made tremendous strides in race relations through the civil rights movement; it achieved at least partial healing after the bitter national split over Vietnam and the counterculture's nihilism...
America as a whole is far more open to newcomers than any other country in the world. Immigration has always been a source of boundless fresh energy and enthusiasm, as millions discovered America anew and in a sense rebuilt it in every generation...
...when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section...
...Without a strong hand, we could never have rebuilt our economy after the war or broken the American atomic monopoly -- you yourself helped do that. You have no moral right to judge our generation -- Stalin's generation -- for its mistakes, for its brutality; you're now enjoying the fruits of our labor and our sacrifices...
...fact, Dienstbier said the United States must play a vital role in reconstructing the Eastern European and Soviet economies. He said the United States, which rebuilt post-war Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, should now help the both the burgeoning democracies in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union...