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...group of Chinese dropped by bringing dozens of other Chinese into the courtroom and challenging the prosecutor to match faces with the names on the indictments. Of his lawyer days, Gardner liked to recall that he defended "vagrants, peeping Toms and chicken thieves as if they were great statesmen...
...Saturday's caucus in Concord. While the ladies drank tea. Kerry stuck to his guns and told the women that most welfare recipients did deserve to be on the lists. He said Spiro Agnew was one of the poorer vice-presidents, not one of our great statesmen...
NOVELISTS have had less success than statesmen, if that is possible, in dealing with the ailments of the age. For one thing, they lack the statesman's surest strength, his reasonable chances of success by inadvertence. A novelist whose writing takes even the slightest notice of his society is obliged to make some sense of the times. That is his franchise, and fool luck will not help. He must be a seer or, at a minimum, the rarest sort of charlatan...
...this same principle, other revisionists find American capitalist cupidity behind the decisions to go to war in Korea and Viet Nam-a clear example of twisting the facts to fit the theory. While minimizing the vices of the totalitarian leaders, Cold War revisionists invariably exaggerate the shortcomings of American statesmen. This requires something approaching a conspiracy theory of history. How else explain the fact that U.S. leaders are always doing what they say they are not doing? D. F. Fleming, professor emeritus of Vanderbilt University (The Cold War and Its Origins}, and David Horowitz (Empire and Revolution), onetime director...
...rigid theory of economics is insufficient to explain the behavior of democratic statesmen like F.D.R. and Truman...