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...more convinced that those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
...with legislation. "Well, it may be true that you cannot legislate integration," he said, "but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that you cannot legislate morality, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that is pretty important also." The legislature applauded long and wildly...
Even if President Johnson successfully persuades American banks and businessmen to voluntarily restrain their investments abroad, the United States will face a gold loss in 1965 of immense and perhaps crisis-making proportions...
Last week Communist unions refused to let a Pan Am plane billet overnight at Djakarta, held up telegrams and mail to U.S. newsmen and embassy officials, and urged Indonesian servants in American households to quit their jobs. Whether Sukarno could or could not restrain them, the P.K.I, extremists, carrying coffins through the streets as they chanted about "our enemies the Americans," seemed determined to get every last U.S. citizen out of Indonesia...
...those that maim to those that kill. By opening up one end of this spectrum we have invited escalation in a new dimension of warfare. Yet it is a dimension which by its diversity and ease of spread we cannot hope to match with deterrence. Thus our ability to restrain violence throughout the world will be diminished. Paul Doty Professor of Chemistry