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...perhaps not entirely dead in the atheistic Marxist present), which sees one nation as universal redeemer. The special American destiny, suggested President Johnson, is both a blessing and a burden. "We have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit. If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those...
...fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often, with inexplicable timing, Johnson allowed a benign smile to crease his face during passages not requiring a smile-an unsettling podium quirk that he resorts to, apparently, whenever he gets a notion that his audience may feel he looks too stern...
Finn stated that his committee would seek the consent and advice of Cambridge officials and professionals before proceeding
...Jersey Democrat Richard J. Hughes, planning to seek a second term next fall and facing a hostile, Republican-dominated legislature, tossed off a 31,700-word message in the Great Society vein, designed to make sure "that New Jersey does not become a grim preview of a polluted, congested world of the future." His new programs would add $153 million to the $634 million state budget. Hughes wants a state sales or income tax, which the legislature-under federal court order to reapportion itself and stand for re-election next November-is not about to give...
Secretary of Education? The mark of his approach has been to seek support beyond the educational fraternity. One result is the agency's handsome, plentifully illustrated new magazine American Education, to be published ten times a year starting this month and sent free to influential citizens such as judges, businessmen, labor leaders, physicians. Educators and others must subscribe to get the magazine, and 20,000 have already sent in the $3 price of a subscription. Keppel does not particularly mind that federal education programs are parceled out among 42 different departments and agencies: "You're a lot better...