Here Comes Immorality
Luce, Phillip Abbott
frustration to which it had given rise away from themselves, in part by actively directing those passions against their predecessors. In fact, Parmet indicates that the main motive behind...
...Phillip Abbott Luce tling for an armistice which left Korea divided and which Syngrnan Rhee actively tried to sabotage...
...Shortsightedness and political opportunism from such quarters threatened the viability of democratic, private-enterprise economies outside the Soviet sphere" (p...
...for he was not in favor of dismantling the New Deal, nor was he prepared to absolve the government of responsibility for maintaining a high ]eve] of economic activity...
...In domestic affairs, as well, Eisenhower disappointed those who hoped for a total reversal of direction...
...In many areas of domestic policy, Eisenhower was a true conservative, but not in the sense in which the Old Guard understood the term...
...itical culture...
...Remember your children...
...On the specific issue of economy in government, Eisenhower was unable to reduce the federal budget to the extent the Old Guard Republicans had wished...
...Right-wing Anarchists Seeking space in New York Times Pictures next in Vogue/Playboy/Time Gentle men women people (Or some percentage thereof) Actions speak louder than praise for Chairman Mao or North America How nice to confront a NEW movement...
...In fact, Parmet indicates that the main motive behind Eisenhower's candidacy in 1952 was his desire to protect the policy of collective security through NATO and American military and economic support for Western Europe...
...Such values as economic individualism (crudely expressed in Secretary Wilson's preference for bird dogs over kennel dogs: "You know, one will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell...
...Destroy the State...
...Hence, the attacks on "containment," in favor of "liberation" of communist-controlled countries in Eastern Europe...
...In addition to serving the specific political purpose of appealing to those normally Democratic voters whose ancestral homelands were behind the Iron Curtain, these attacks presented the appearance of taking the offensive against communism...
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...At all times there are two sides to the coin...
...This fee]ing did not, however, t r a n s l a t e itself into a doctrine of laissez-faire, a sudden return to which would have been regarded as risky and anything but conservative...
...Certainly, its problems in the field of foreign affairs were very much eased by the death of Stalin and the sudden willingness of the North Koreans to compromise on the POW issue...
...The harsher anticommunist tone of the Eisenhower Administration assuaged the frustrations of the years of communist advances in Europe and Asia without, however, forcing the country into any potentially dangerous confrontations...
...Eisenhower and Dulles avoided the pitfalls of their predecessors' policies by changing the accompanying rhetoric...
...The Eisenhower Administration is an interesting test of the feasibility of a nonideological conservatism based on traditional morality and tempered by the expediency and caution which usually go by the name of "statesmanship...
...were still strongly held by the mass of the people, as they were by Eisenhower who was, in many ways, t h a t population's most accurate representative...
...Yet, again, this did not become dogma--the centralization process was slowed but allowed to continue with respect to felt needs in the areas of school and highway construction...
...The State believes That it can survive...
...Nevertheless, breaching the $70 billion expenditure level, which he considered a necessity, disappointed the conservatives and prepared the scene for the embarrassing budget battle of 1957...
...Accordingly, Eisenhower followed the Truman policy in Korea, setHere Comes Immorality b y Jerome Tuccille Stein & Day $6.95 I read books/reviews and remember the New Left Children dead as my empty glass...
...By making some suggestions about a "New Look" in military preparedness which would reduce governmental expenditures by "getting more ba~Ig for the buck," he played up to the fiscal conservatives...
...It is a difficult question to what extent its successes were based on its own character and actions and to what extent it was merely lucky...
...Eisenhower also shared the fear of the centralization of power which forms an important element of the American po...
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...On the other hand, its avoidance of war in Indochina, the Middle East, and the Formosa Straits seems to be due to its subtle and cautious handling of these crises...
...Rather, Eisenhower's conservatism represented an adherence to many of the political ideas and values t h a t dominated American life before the depression and which the New Deal had violated but not destroyed...
...According to our author, the decisive point in the decision to run was Senator Lodge's argument, on September 4, 1951, that Eisenhower must protect the Republican Party, and thereby the country, against the "prominence of Old Guarders and their indifference or even hostility to programs that had been created to fortify Western Europe against communist expansion...
...Similarly, he did not share the desire to undo the gains t h a t labor unions had made in the course of the previous Democratic administrations...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
