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...military containment is not effective against the Soviet Union's psychological, economic, and political threat, Morgenthau maintained that many nations now regard the United States, not the Russians, as the aggressor. Military strength should receive less emphasis than it now he added. "We must learn to bargain, promise, threaten, compromise...
Second, the rationalists no longer claim they see no difference between the two candidates. They know very well which man they would rather see win. If they share the feelings of other liberals, they consider it very important for him to win. It is threaten depressed areas. If Nixon wins, part, not to cast their votes, just because the form--not the substance--of their candidate's arguments has been disappointing...
...second part of the Republican program that might threaten the farmer's existence. Termed Operation Safeguard, it calls for "a substantial expansion of the conservation reserve program." Mr. Nixon would ask farmers to withdraw land from production and rent it to the government for periods of three to ten years...
...packed aisles to shout their arguments from the tribune in a haze of floodlit smoke. "If the two mad groups of the world want to have a go at each other," roared Cousins, "we want no part of it. We talk of having friendship with Russia-and then we threaten them with the bomb." The boilermakers' delegate said it with metaphors mixed: "America and Russia are like two grizzly bears trying to get at each other. Let us pull out of this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist...
...history have been able to recover from situations comparable to the most extreme of these possibilities. We accept responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values and stand ready to dedicate our lives toward this end. But we deny the alternative of nuclear deterrents, for they threaten not only our existence, but man's future as well...