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...greatness of a President is measured not by his ability to determine what is popular and get it enacted into law, but by his ability to take what may appear to be unpopular positions - which he believes to be right - and to make them popular. This becomes especially crucial as we enter a period in which both sacrifice and risk are necessary - but in which the risks of inaction are greater than the risks of action...
...ambitious program to increase lending commitments to $30 billion by 1985. Last year the bank lent over $12 billion, up from $1 billion in 1968, when McNamara was appointed president. In an emotional farewell speech to the bank's annual meeting last month, McNamara defended often unpopular foreign aid to underdeveloped countries. Said he: "Investment in the human potential of the poor is not only morally right, it's very sound economics...
...time, the widespread fear of Reagan's views and the disappointment with Carter's performance left an opening for a third choice, and Independent John Anderson tried to fill the gap. He established a number of courageously different and unpopular stands on a variety of highly specific issues. Anderson rejected tax cuts on the ground that they fuel inflation, insisted that energy independence without mandatory and painful conservation by Americans was "an illusion," and argued that the U.S. needed far stronger conventional forces more than it needed the MX missile. But Anderson's "new realism" failed to stake...
...into effect and is largely a Senate product, it nonetheless is a start toward resolving what is likely to be the most critical issue facing the industrialized West during the rest of the century. The nation laughed at the moral equivalent of war, and Jimmy Cardigan quickly abandoned that unpopular rubric in late 1977. But he had his priorities right...
...decade or so ago, much of the public would have turned a deaf ear to these voices of science, eloquent as they are. The subject was unpopular, even in disrepute. Science, or more accurately its offshoot technology, was being blamed for much that was wrong with the world: the growing despoliation of the environment, the chemical devastation of the Vietnamese countryside, the spread of nuclear weaponry. Even the first flush of excitement about landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more...