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...civilization called European, or Western; the U.S. had become the heir of Athens and Rome simply because it was the only nation able to carry out the function of a trustee. In a trustee, good will and generosity are not enough; he must also exercise with requisite vigor the authority of his office...
...Republican agenda. Taxes also had to be cut. These problems were interwoven. But G.O.P. fiscal experts did not talk so confidently as they once had of whacking off appropriations and slashing taxes 20%; closer study of the problems had made them more cautious. Nevertheless, they would attack with vigor...
Thus, in 1934, Cleveland's late Newton Diehl Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian, wrote to Brooks Emeny, a young (then 33), Princeton-trained instructor in foreign affairs at Yale University. It was an offer of a hard job: to put vigor and educational purpose into Cleveland's limping Foreign Affairs Council. Slender, earnest Brooks Emeny took it on. He found a membership of 300 women, 50 men holding only four meetings a year...
...closing session will be given over to authoritative discussion of U.S. responsibilities. In the past year these responsibilities have been exercised in a largely negative way, i.e., necessary resistance to Russian expansion. But in the long run, U.S. leadership must be positive and must extend in full vigor from the field of diplomacy into economic organization, education, morals and wherever American ideals may find expression. This does not mean that the U.S. will attempt to dictate or interfere with the policies of other countries. It does assume, however, that the world looks to the U.S. for more than material...
...chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress...