Word: resister
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...spoke only the stillness of Soviet hegemony, or an acceptance of coexistence? Again, almost surely both. The Bolshevik believed in the prevalence of material and military factors; the aged leader was exhausted by the exactions of a pitiless system. Doubtless, no more than any other Soviet leader would Brezhnev resist a chance to alter the power balance; nothing can relieve us of the imperative of preparedness. But within that constraint, some leaders, driven by the impossibility of suppressing human aspiration forever, may emerge who seek true coexistence. The West's policy must encompass simultaneously the two antiphonal trends...
...possible to explain to the absolute ruler of the Middle Kingdom the finer points of a constitutional system that placed even the highest officials under the rule of law. At the same time, Mao had a point. Watergate interested him primarily for its impact on our fitness to resist Soviet expansionism. The geopolitical consequences threatened to dwarf the original offense...
...decade, detente is being made to bear the burden for the consequences of America's self-destructive domestic convulsions over Viet Nam and Watergate. The former made Americans recoil before foreign involvement and thus opened an opportunity for Soviet expansionism; the latter weakened Executive power to resist Soviet pressure...
...American President soon learns that he has a narrow margin for maneuver. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are ideological rivals. Détente cannot change that. The nuclear age compels us to coexist. Rhetorical crusades cannot change that either. A President thus has a dual responsibility: he must resist Soviet expansionism, and he must be conscious of the risks of global confrontation. His policy must embrace both deterrence and coexistence, both containment and an effort to relax tensions...
...ultimate task is to strengthen peace in the world. The American people expect it from their leaders; the nuclear age imposes it as a moral and practical necessity. We can resist aggressive policies best from a platform of peace; men and women of good will and decency can be enlisted only in support of a policy of positive aspirations...