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More and more statesmen, and even some farm leaders, want to turn Washington's agricultural effort away from a wasteful and expensive campaign to limit production, and toward the goal of allowing the nation to realize its full bounty. They have been rebuffed and delayed largely by politics, both at home and abroad. The time finally seems to have arrived when the bulk of American farmers are well enough off financially to make the change without having to endure undue jolts, and when foreign customers are eager to buy more of America's agricultural wealth than ever before...
Several scholars and statesmen have interpreted Johnson as a tragic figure whose good intentions were foiled by historical forces. Others have portrayed him as "the prarie boy from Texas who realized the American crisis better than urbanologists...
...work? What happens if the talks begin again, without the hoped-for "good will" on the part of the North? Presumably, Nixon will be in an even more uncomfortable position than he was before the bombing. He will have gained nothing but the renewed mistrust of many European statesmen as well as a large segment of the American public. Having so dramatically expressed his dissatisfaction with the current demands of the North, like their insistence on tying the fate of American prisoners together with that of political prisoners in the South, it would be doubly difficult now to turn around...
...perceptions of national interest that have dictated successful foreign policy in Europe for 500 years. Political thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes contributed to a body of experience and theory that culminated in the 19th and 20th centuries in the effective policies of Metternich, Bismarck, Adenauer and De Gaulle, four statesmen whom Kissinger admires. Metternich claimed that "it is freedom of action, not formal relations" that leads to successful diplomacy. Following that dictum, Kissinger and Nixon have reassessed U.S. relationships, abandoning some ties as out-of-date (Taiwan), remaking others that might inhibit freedom of action (Japan, Western Europe) and forging...
...only a compendium of examples of guilt by association with agents before and during the Revolution. But as a contemporary analogy, Henry Kissinger has surely had to deal with the same sort of men in his quest for peace in Viet Nam. At worst, Franklin was perhaps guilty-as statesmen sometimes are-of using rather shabby means to achieve estimable ends...