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...regular town meetings, the established politicians in colonial Washington have begun to take notice of Adams-Morgan and even obsequiously seek it out. The people, bless them, have not been conned. At each meeting, the attitude of doing it ourselves seems to strengthen and fear of 'downtown' to weaken. (At a recent ceremony, to count block-by-block votes for an operating council to carry out assembly decisions between meeting, a local judge was scheduled to preside. He was so obviously scornful of the local attitudes and informality that he was asked to leave; an act of lese majeste with...
Accountability is essential to our rights. Yet the trend of recent years has been to weaken accountability and to strengthen that elitism which results from reposing decision-making authority in bureaucracies and groups beyond the reach of democratic recall...
...dissenting judges took the opposite position from the majority. Denying the President's claim of absolute Executive privilege, they maintained, would decisively weaken him in his dealings with the other two branches of Government. "The ultimate issue," wrote Judge George MacKinnon, "is the effect that our decision will have upon the constitutional independence of our President for all time." If he cannot be assured that his conversations will remain confidential, he may be prevented from formulating programs and strategies...
Schlesinger patrolled the halls, buttonholing Senators to argue that such a drastic cut would weaken NATO and undercut negotiations with the Russians for mutual troop reduction in Europe. It would also save the U.S. little money because the forces would only be brought back to America, not demobilized. Similar arguments were raised by General Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., who is the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and just happened to be in Washington, in telephone calls to key Senators. On the final vote, in which four Senators changed their votes, the Mansfield amendment was defeated...
...dangers - especially in the area of foreign policy - Hughes reassuringly ends by arguing that the presidency, as Montesquieu felt govern ments should be, has been slowly tailored by a succession of men to suit the people, the country and the times. Any new, radical limitation of presidential power would weaken the country -and likely prove ineffective. There is probably in the long run no better, safe way than we now have to protect ourselves from totally misguided or unscrupulous Chief Executives...