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Richard Nixon, on the other hand, has so far scorned even the language of contrition. He referred only to deep "regret and pain" over the Watergate "mistakes" and "misjudgments." His behavior even comes perilously close to that in Jesus' famous parable of the unmerciful servant: a man had been forgiven a large debt by his master, then brutally tried to collect what was owed him by a subordinate. After his own pardon, Nixon fervently opposes amnesty for Viet Nam War resisters. Indeed, according to his son-in-law David Eisenhower, Nixon now says that he would not have accepted pardon...
Particularly troubling to me as a Christian is the fact that President Ford appeals to his conscience "as a humble servant of God" in granting this pardon. Unlike Mr. Ford, I serve a God who is a God of justice as well as a God of mercy. By him, kings and paupers shall one day be judged alike...
Joseph's son, the district commissioner, Franz, leads the life of a model imperial civil servant, correct if a little stupid, and his son Carl Joseph becomes a moderately well-meaning lieutenant in an imperial army without much coherence or purpose. He causes the death of his only friend, the regimental surgeon whose memories of his own grandfather--a silver-bearded Jewish innkeeper--remind the lieutenant of the hero of Solferino. Carl Joseph makes love to an older woman, with "the heart of a girl of sixteen...a beautiful secret in a crumbling castle," he runs into debt, leaves...
...children. After John D. Jr.'s death in 1960 at the age of 86, Lyndon Johnson said of him: "That old man up in heaven-or wherever he may be-must be awfully proud of all his boys. Every one of them's been a public servant...
...month ago this island was a paradise. Now we have lost it. The island of Aphrodite is now the island of the devil." These bitter words of Peter Stylianakis, a retired civil servant, could have come from any other Greek on Cyprus. With the guns stilled and Turkish troops in control of more than one-third of the island, the once dominant Greek community had a chance last week to assess the damage caused by four weeks of war. The picture could not have been grimmer, and in their fear and frustration the island's Greeks lashed...