Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem, then the situation in Korea. In the course of those meetings General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of State entered into a secret treaty. They agreed that henceforth between them the phrases "from a purely military point of view" and "from a purely political point of view" would be forbidden as utterly meaningless...
...JOHN GARDNER: Very few of our most prominent people take a really large view of the leadership assignment. Most of them are simply tending the machinery of that part of society to which they belong. The machinery may be a great corporation or a great government agency or a great law practice or a great university. These people may tend it very well indeed, but they are not pursuing a vision of what the total society needs. They have not developed a strategy as to how it can be achieved, and they are not moving to accomplish...
...Gaulle, it was also a matter of principle. From the start, the Gaullists have maintained that the crisis was an international affair in which the West German mark was deeply involved. In the French view, the mark was so strong that it was pulling other currencies off balance. By refusing to devalue, De Gaulle could perhaps bring about a situation in which the Germans would be frightened into increasing the exchange rate of the mark. That would automatically strengthen the franc by making German goods dearer on the world market. De Gaulle also knew that a devaluation would frighten...
...were apparently spent in U.S. penitentiaries while serving 41 of his 30-year sentence for espionage. Here, he claims, he sketched a portrait of President Kennedy so fine that Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked Abel to make him a present of it. The claim seems a little unlikely in view of the quality of his sketches now illustrating some of his works in Russia...
...democracy. Who is to decide the opinions to be expressed on the walls of Harvard University? These students take away the rights of others when they express their own opinions in paint. Someone yesterday wrote, "Happy Thanksgiving" on the wall. What if someone held the opposite point of view? How could he properly express himself...