Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taber has also developed a wariness of that governmental staple-statistics. "Numbers are the bricks and mortar of economics," he concedes, "but they can always be jiggered to support a case. The only statistic I still trust is my Social Security number." To those who question his fondness for his subject, Taber offers an observation from Economist Robert Heilbroner: "A man who thinks that economics is only a matter for professors forgets that this is the science that has sent men to the barricades...
...Speaker, or the Democratic Party, or a presidential candidate to help put them in office. I think this is one reason we are much more likely to see success in November among Democratic members of Congress than we would ordinarily expect. Their dependence relates to their own direct trust with the voters...
Carter is conscious of the people's continued lack of trust in government and repeated that he tries to deal with this in an open way. "There is a great deal of skepticism about the decision-making process. Everybody wants to be darned sure we never have another Watergate or Viet Nam. Even if Eisenhower were in the White House, there would be a much closer examination of what he did. I think it is healthy...
...that the very Washington columnists who have enthusiastically chronicled the diminution of public trust in Congress and the presidency are themselves suffering from the current animus toward Washington-knows-best. More charitably, editors don't think that any Washington columnist, no matter how energetic and wise, can be knowledgeable and reflective on important matters three times a week. So for their Op-Ed pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world...
...only verdict was that the Chinese "government had let these people die, or ignorantly starved them to death. The government was fighting a war against Japan; it was relentless in collecting taxes for the war. But since it did not trust its own paper money, its armies in the field were instructed to collect taxes in grain and kind for their own support. ("If the people die," said an officer to me, "the land will still be Chinese. But if the soldiers starve, the Japanese will take the land.") The army had emptied the countryside of food; shipped...