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...regional meetings produced some intriguing insights into the general causes of the dwindling influence of Congress. Maryland Senator Charles Mathias claims that Congress is so narrowly concerned with each single piece of legislation that it ignores a broader perspective and fails to notice when it is "at a Rubicon, facing a great constitutional watershed." Correspondent MacNeil agrees that the legislators "live, like many people, on the razor edge of right now. They are parochial in time; they lack a sense of the past or a care for the future...
...risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that "the Rubicon is crossed"; therefore, "the place of this newspaper is behind the President of the United States...
...wonder why American journalists keep trying to write about Rome as though it provided some very significant analogy to America. Remember John Gunther producing that book about Julius Caesar? Teddy White wrote a play, too, about crossing the Rubicon. Even Hemingway, in the midst of covering the Spanish Civil War, wrote a grotesque playlet about the three Roman soldiers who had just crucified Christ. One of them keeps repeating, "I tell you, he was pretty good in there today...
...Richard Nixon like Julius Caesar? According to Author Theodore H. White (The Making of The President), Nixon faces the same temptation to transcend the law of the land. Before a rehearsal of his first play, Caesar at the Rubicon, at Princeton University's McCarter Theater, owlish politicophile White, 55, noted that Caesar's problems "were reborn with the American Constitution. We were the first republic under the law since Rome." Within five years after crossing the Rubicon, said White, "Caesar had become dictator and god, master of the world. He had placed himself outside...
...Bowie claims that "the Center has never received any CIA support." In fact, all contracts of DAS personnel are co-signed by the Institute of International Education (HE). The HE is funded by such CIA conduits as the William Benton, the Dearborn, the Asian, and the Rubicon Foundations, as well as by GM, the Bank of America, and Standard Oil. In addition, the CFIA has held joint seminars with the Center for International Studies, an M.I.T. Social Science Research center, which is funded by the OIA on a permanent basis. Further insight into the nature of government for the Center...