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Nixon proclaimed in his second Inaugural speech a determination to end "condescending policies of paternalism." The budget proves, in hard money terms, that he means it. He proposes the slaughter of a whole herd of formerly sacred cows-abolition or deep cutting of more than 100 federal grant programs that have benefited the unemployed, students, farmers, veterans, small businessmen, the mentally ill and tenants in federally aided housing. Estimated saving: $17 billion next year, $22 billion in fiscal 1975. In his budget message, Nixon referred contemptuously to these programs as products of the "do something, do anything" philosophy...
Overshadowing all of Johnson's good works, moreover, was the "brushfire" war he inherited, which soon began to breed revolt on the campuses and riots that scarred America's cities. Month after month, optimistic war bulletins from the White House were followed by news of slaughter in the field, giving birth to the "credibility gap." As Historian Eric Goldman wrote: "In his periods of triumph and of down-sweep, he stood the tragic figure of an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances...
...towel, but the champion somehow pulled himself up on the ropes and Referee Arthur Mercante signaled the fighters to continue. Foreman obliged by hitting the nearly helpless Frazier with a head-snapping right cross that put him down for the sixth and final time. Mercante stopped the slaughter at 1 min. 35 sec. of the second round. In the ensuing bedlam, Foreman shoved his way to Frazier's corner and told the fallen champion that "I respect you more than any man in modern boxing. You were a great champion." Frazier, glassy-eyed and bleeding from a split lower...
...Newman found to be a matter of individual judgment: when does a human being begin to exist? Is a fetus only "a bit of vegetating unborn matter" that counts for nothing, as Physician H.B. Munson asserts? Or is it a real person whose destruction Terence Cardinal Cooke describes as "slaughter of the innocent unborn"? The view of the fetus as a person has spawned a nationwide, Catholic-dominated, Right to Life movement whose partisans insist that abortion deprives the fetus of due process under the Constitution. Asserts Fordham Law Professo'r Robert Byrn, a leader of the movement...
...increased trade or for the slaughter of little governments or for the conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clear of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and knows no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only though is of gain while the whole world bleeds...