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...belief that some percentage of all those mass telegrams could be dismissed as from the people on the fringes of American society. Probably not. Instead the muted criticism of the racist messages reflected the desire of many congressmen to believe in the "Ollie" myth. Those who continue to refer to the telegrams want to go on worshipping the populist myth without facing up to the myth's darker, racist side...
When the White House fosters the violation of our laws, when a TV minister makes a mockery of the teachings of Christ, I do not see how our President can then refer to the Soviet Union as a godless nation. What corner of hell is being reserved...
...joint committee has compiled an interesting list of 26 witnesses for the first phase, which some staffers refer to as an exploration of "Contra, Inc." Secord will be followed by Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser, who has testified extensively about his unfortunate dealings with Iran but not about the secret contra resupply. He was at NSC when the Boland Amendment banned direct military aid to the rebels...
Unless Gary has a good memory, it might be advisable for him to carry these questions with him on a clipboard, to which he might refer before engaging in foreplay. Since Gary is a politician, several other do's and don't's should come more easily to him. With sex, as with politics...
...Lipset, readers can also refer to hisunambiguous statement in Political Man,containing the sentence, "This change in Westernpolitical life reflects the fact that thefundamental problems of the industrial revolutionhave been solved." Lipset was writing in 1960. Wasit a fact? Was it perceived as fact? By whom?When? Does Lipset or Huntington know thedifference between a fact, the perception of afact, an opinion, and what is neither? The abovesentence occurs on a page speckled with footnotes,which make it appear as if this particular opinionis rooted in scholarship. But all the footnotesdocument is the statement: "In 1960, a prevalentopinion in Western...