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...McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism. In a sense, the war has ended by producing a basically antipolitical generation. Observes Political Scientist Richard Young: "More and more on the campuses, you see a kind of I'm-going-to-get-mine style that's quite different from several years ago. The cynicism is amazing...
Diplomatic Game. Nixon's new policy is a direct shift away from the cold war rigidity and messianism of the 1950s and early 1960s?an ideological policy based upon a national agreement that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price?for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than...
What lessons has the U.S. learned from the longest and most costly war in its history? "That good intentions and physical power are not enough," says Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau, an early critic of the war. "What is required is a wisdom and recognition of limits that our national experience hadn't taught us." As the cold war disappears, suggests former Diplomat George Kennan, one of the principal architects of America's policy of containment, the U.S. will be free to concentrate on such larger issues as the control of strategic weaponry, the salvation of man's environment...
Such hopes, however, hang on the very tattered threads of the "coattail" theory. Revisionist political scientists, looking back over old elections with new eyes, now wonder if coattails ever were very important. They point out that in the past 24 years, three winning Presidents have actually run behind their party's candidates for the House. In Politics, Presidents and Coattails, Political Scientist Malcolm Moos concludes: "The coattail influence of the presidential candidate has been demonstrated to be of minor significance...
Whipple has been named a Smithsonian senior scientist. He has been director of the joint Smithsonian-Harvard facilities here since 1955.. He will spend full time in research...