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...rock society meanwhile was turning its attention to politics, and some Americans wanted to ascribe one or another leftist philosophy to the Stones. Again "Satisfaction" became the focus of discussion--the first Jagger-Richards song about youth discontent with the status quo, the analysts pronounced in retrospect. As the Stones withdrew culturally into the psychedelic-drug world that would ultimately cost them Brian Jones, they were labelled leaders-in-exile of the revolt. "Street Fightin Man" was dubbed an "anthem...
Although the FBI wiretaps on Masselli ended in 1979, voluminous files on them remain in the Justice Department, which supervises the FBI. Whether anyone in the department informed Attorney General William French Smith about the wiretap references to Donovan is not known. In retrospect, it is evident that someone should have done...
Whether the strategic stakes justified such a massive American involvement must be doubted in retrospect. But once American forces are committed, there is no valid goal except to prevail. The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations trapped themselves between their convictions and their inhibitions. They engaged us in Indochina to defeat a global conspiracy and then failed to press a military solution for fear of sparking a global conflict-a fear probably as exaggerated as the original assessment...
...retrospect it is clear that from then on the Nixon presidency was irredeemable. So long as the testimony of senior aides was in conflict, there was some chance that boredom and the impossibility of deciding conclusively among the different versions would cause the crisis to run out of steam. The revelation of the White House taping system ended any such possibility. Thenceforth Watergate was transformed into a bitter contest between the President on one side and the Congress and the special prosecutor (appointed in May) on the other for control of the tapes. Whatever the fine points of the legal...
...retrospect, I would have [handled] it in a different way," Sochacki said yesterday. In the past decade every major university has been inundated by the Krishnas. Sochacki added, saying he had probably overreacted...