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...Saltonstall's career. He introduced and saw enacted the first compulsory automobile insurance bill in the country; as a young boy vacationing out West he heard William Jennings Bryan speak; he commissioned the first political poll in New England for his 1938 gubernatorial campaign. And as governor, he strove always for balanced budgets, and campaigned primarily on that issue as well as his own integrity. In the Senate, Saltonstall served as the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and later was its ranking Republican member...
...with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly-though unsuccessfully-strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing criticism for devoting insufficient attention to Spain's relations with European and Third World nations...
When Jefferson and his co-revolutionaries declared that all men are created equal, they knew that years and miles had to be traversed before the dream could become reality. Some of the greatest Americans -Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King-are world figures principally because they strove for the realization of this dream and the extension of the privilege of equality to millions...
Wrote Carter about Rickover in Why Not the Best?: "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates. We feared and respected him and strove to please him ... The absence of a comment was his compliment; he never hesitated to criticize severely if a job were not done as well as he believed it could be done. He expected the maximum from us." Carter deals with his own aides in a more humane way, even managing an occasional commendation. But the fact that the Rickover manner impresses him suggests that he is still susceptible...
...Chilean coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in late 1973 replaced one set of economic ideologues with another. The Marxists who strove for total regulation of the economy have been succeeded by a group of policymakers known as the "Chicago Boys." Reason: they ardently embrace the free-market teachings of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, who visited Chile for six days last year to counsel them...