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...presence there?regardless of summitry?could only invest the session with unwarranted dignity. Yet the U.S. had to speak out. For a forum, Johnson selected a State Department briefing for educators just an hour before Kosygin was to take the podium at the U.N. The President gave a sober, statesmanlike prescription for sanity in the Middle East. His "five great principles of peace in the region" called for each nation's "fundamental right to live" and be respected by its neighbors, "justice" for Arab refugees, unfettered maritime rights, control of the arms race, and maintenance of the "political independence...
...what to do with all the newly conquered territory - what to keep for reasons of security or sentiment, what to trade off for reasons of economics or politics. Though the Israelis have no intention of budging now, and certainly would be hard to dislodge by any means, no sober Israeli believed that it would be good for his nation to hold all the new lands over the long...
...backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," G. K. Chesterton echoed many Americans: "It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober...
Westmoreland's address was a sober, thoughtful review of the war. He offered no simplistic solutions. "I foresee, in the months ahead, some of the bitterest fighting of the war," he warned. In response to a question, he said that he did not see "any end of the war in sight. It's going to be a question of putting maximum pressure on the enemy anywhere and everywhere that we can. We will have to grind him down. In effect, we are fighting a war of attrition...
...hope that when we do, what we will try to evolve is concept based on a modest unsparing view of ourselves; on a careful examination of our national interest, devoid of all utopian and universalistic pretentions; and on a sober, discriminating view of the world beyond our borders--a view that takes account of the element of relativity in all antagonisms and friendships, that sees in others neither angels nor devils--neither heroes nor blackguards; a concept, finally, which accepts it as our purpose not to abolish all violence and injustice from the workings of international society but to confine...