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...same time, the practical political power that Reagan can wield has been growing. When Reagan took over, the Board of Regents was still dominated by Pat Brown-appointed liberals. Still angry about the '66 campaign defeat, the liberals smacked down several Reagan proposals in early 1967. But natural turnover has taken its toll since then. And this fall, when Republican victories in the state legislature gave Reagan men a few more ex officio seats on the Board of Regents, Reagan finally had a firm majority...
...department that because I was a radical, I had the power to influence the slant of the article, which they felt indicated some sort of radical onslaught in the department. (Not sharing the prevalent view of departmental sanctity, I had originally called in the reporter.) If I indeed wield such power, I feel mildly flattered. But in fact Scott Jacobs consulted three other people whose political views are considerably different from mine in order to have a many-sided account of the meeting, a balance I feel was effected...
This whole incident proves a potent fact: even if radicals wanted to wield a tyranny, and they don't, they couldn't do so. The real tyranny, on the contrary, comes not from radicals but from the established powers, which make students so terrified of losing their degrees that they turn upon each other...
What liberal journalists believe they have is power. This is what leads them to feel so responsible. Few of them really understand the substance of the power that they wield, but all of them have a heady feeling designated as power that comes with knowing about things before anyone else knows about them, the felling of bestowing events on the public. It is first a feeling of omniscience (standing there listening to the AP machine talking to you first), and second a feeling of creation, the idea of making an event itself...
...states operate their schools unassisted and virtually as they please were emphatically laid to rest last week. For the job of U.S. Commissioner of Education, President Richard Nixon picked James E. Allen Jr., the tough-minded education commissioner of New York-a man who does not hesitate to wield his authority in order to bring about reforms in the schools...