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now in the Greek Cabinet. (Embassy officials weren't killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Rodger the only ones sluffing off the old politicians. On the day Davies. In some ways the...
...A reporter asked him to step aside so people that the anti-Americanism has died down...
...But, because the we cannot have effective government which depends on a fire's quenched, that doesn't mean the house is fit to benign (or a malign) executive...
...He appeared before the VFW, A Rockeford Administration would have us believe a major professional veterans outfit, to raise the possibilwe are entering an era of good-feeling...
...There may The work of reconstruction involves the executive and have been unspoken "linkage" in the President's amlegislative branches of the federal government-and the nesty remarks...
...equal or superior to those sitting in the Senate...
...a scale of prices covering every form competent toil of an accessible, fair-dealing plain- of civic corruption has been set up and these prices speaking President willing to share his burdens-and have actually been made a matter of common knowledge, glory-with the Congress, of which he was a part for and no administrator, even if he were wiser than all the many years, and with the American people...
...Hopefully, we now understand that A sense of relief is understandable...
...Nothing will succeed rather promises to do less...
...And parenthetically, of the Washington press corps, demonstrated it contained President Ford is not ridding himself quickly enough of men and women capable of courage and attainment, Nixon trash-men in the White House...
...would resent the American attitude if they returned to As my landlord told me, "We always thought we had a office...
...At the federal level, inhabit...
...caucus" for discussion...
...and (3) his "liberalism...
...But Karamanlis did American bases, but after a daily and often irresponsible hear the night he returned to Athens-the crowd was press campaign against the U.S., any American will do...
...It has established a tives, but rather that his Presidency is marked by the code of its own...
...And all of Kissinhome...
...not unfamiliar...
...But that is not to say wires...
...True, the im- ity of offering "earned" amnesty on an individual basis to mediate nightmare is over...
...And now they seem to be vindicated...
...He tions all of us have personal incidents to report in a might be joining in the chants...
...Otherwise, bygones may San Clemente who down the road could have appeared become fore-gones...
...In this respect, John Gardner, who founded Common Ford's ability to agree without being disagreeable is a Cause, correctly informs us that to minimize the seducwelcome climatic change...
...The next day he became Minister of De- feel especially hurt by what they see as America's abanfense...
...First, traditional reformers gress, instead of a honeymoon...
...and, of course, the fury culminated in the journalist presently living in Athens...
...The mean-minded men of the order to chat briefly and separately with the Senate and White House are now common citizens, although a few the House of Representatives...
...Either such relationship, felt themselves and their movements as being "above despite mutually good intentions, may flounder on the politics," when, in fact, it is through politics that differshoals of a shaky economy and/or a recurrence of last ences are resolved...
...need to be reformed...
...upon Nixon...
...Criticism directed against him, that is readers...
...He called in the Congressional "black speaks of letting bygones be bygones...
...Actually, regime...
...The President told each may become common criminals before too long...
...Greeks before the change in government Evangelos Averoff were generally shocked and much of the heat has gone stopped by one of the news agencies to look at the out of the desire to demonstrate...
...And, significantly, President Ford nominated NelThere's bedrock to build on-the principle of ac- son Rockefeller as Vice President...
...The results of that frustration are seen in the the State Department's mistakes which he helped formu- withdrawal from NATO, the continuing threat to the late...
...President Ford can do no until each one of you comes to feel that he must rise better, in institutional terms than to render unto Con- against wrong, even as every man armed himself during gress the things that are the Congress...
...Nixon spared them by quitting...
...what is past may become prologue...
...The that politically the Avenue is a two-way street, instead of world of Washington feels itself re-established in its the embargoed thoroughfare it had been during the familiar pathways...
...The temper of the new governors Nixon Presidency...
...We is an extraordinary condition that may teach us to ex- may fashion an America in which no one is above the pect less from Presidents and more from ourselves and law-or below the salt...
...COME ROBERTS country where we are normally treated with the utmost (Cokie Roberts is an American newspaper and radio kindness...
...In some ways the shooting was cathartic...
...consecutively, have been propelled from office pre- Today, in our times, we may choose to undertake a maturely-one by assassination, the second by enforced cleansing enterprise which also would narrow the gap retirement and the third by resignation last month...
...But this "super-talk" won't tive effects of power, realistic arrangements must be suffice in trying to make the present work, much less the established to make it more difficult for officials to future...
...Institutional changes are called for, but there "separate the citizens from the levers of power, and appears no compelling drive by those in command to much more difficult for a tightly knit inner circle to effect them...
...A subsequent plebeian House, falsely consigned to oblivion by the article will suggest ways-and-means...
...Gardner suggests "highly among a majority of the Congress that it has been rescued organized, tough-minded citizen action to hold governfrom having to pronounce a political death-sentence ment accountable, a means of voting between elections...
...Small men and women, who compose this undis- legislature-the Congress-to juxtapose against an tinguished Committee, rose large to the occasion...
...Such preliminary actions of the new President may In so doing, we should avoid two mistakes of traditranslate into a good political marriage with the Con- tional reform movements...
...the point is that by now our federal government...
...Senators, particularly Republicans, were One lesson of Watergate, therefore, is not only that panicky over the prospect of serving as "jurors" in an there was a corrupt sitting President but also that there impeachment trial...
...press itself, the contented cows of the status quo...
...Ambassador Henry Tasca was the first to pay for to turn...
...No more lawgivers and administrators who have ever lived, is unConstitutional purse-snatching from the Congress .. . strong enough to rectify this evil, no matter how he may no more nasty illicit little wars...
...shouting "democratia," "Elftheria," "exo i Amerikani" In addition to large and sometimes violent demonstra- or "democracy," "freedom," "Americans go home...
...Their "The point is that the time has now come for us to actions now enable the Congress to reassert its role in the save our native land...
...Ambassador to Cyprus, Rodger the only ones sluffing off the old politicians...
...This between promise and fulfillment in American lives...
...mately suggest that political euphoria is no substitute for The President may have made this offer with a view to undertaking institutional repairs...
...The equally healthy executive-the Presidency...
...no more monarchial curb the actions of the corrupt officials by appointing trappings . . . and no more promises to do more, but other officials to watch over them...
...However, one may legiti- draft-dodgers of the Vietnam war (but not to deserters...
...The specific targets of the hate might be Henry ger's attempts to placate Greece-disparagingly called Kissinger (the demonstrators shout "Kissinger Murderer" love notes in the local press-have been met with and "Kissinger Give Back Your Nobel"), and the Karamanlis' hearing aid turned off...
...was no one watching...
...The sour from the White House to the Capitol on short notice in smell has blown away...
...safety valve to rely on and now we don't know where U.S...
...Many Greeks could work...
...in recent years, he has moved out of from our local and state governments, which themselves the closet and into the light...
...Some diplomats always warned that the civilians donment, because they saw the U.S...
...Second, a reformed unit of governwinter's energy "crisis," induced by the oil companies- ment does not remain reformed if civic watchmen do not with which the Rockefellers, Nelson, David & Co.-are man its corridors of power...
...Good" men and Knownothings of political science and by the patricians women in themselves are insufficient...
...And, if he is the epoch when all the nations rose up (against a not willing, then the Congress should show the determina- common enemy...
...That's hard, dirty work extending the blanket amnesty to Nixon, the recluse of to be done in the engine-room...
...But at this point it doesn't matter who is in office American bases here and the toying with the Soviet either in the embassy here or in the White House at Union's peace proposal for Cyprus...
...So wrote Gogol in Dead Souls more than a century Within the last 11 years, three Presidents, serving ago...
...He traveled the mile along Pennsylvania Avenue Rockefeller has been a closet conservative during most 20 September 1974: 494 of his public life...
...tion to force such a pruning of the Presidency...
...2) his political and societal wounds, inflicted by the Nixon views on abortion...
...Instead, there is almost a childish delight monopolize those levers...
...as a special friend...
...country is perishing not because of any invasion by This and the acts of open-handedness on the part of nations speaking 20 alien tongues, but because of our President Ford are encouraging and esteemed develop- own selves...
...We may hope that the new President strives not ernment, another government has formed itself, far more to be one of Arthur Schlesinger's "heroic" Chief Execu- powerful than any legitimate one...
...SISYPHUS Commonweal: 495...
...Rockefeller, alcountability of a President has prevailed, somewhat by though a political chameleon, appears to have as much inadvertence and, even then, not to the extent that solid support among Congressional Democrats as among Clare Boothe Luce recently assured her National Review Republicans...
...in courtrooms as the defendant in the dock...
...The House Judiciary Committee did perform this means setting in motion an effective, responsible ably...
...WASHINGTON REPORT ~• POST-WATERGATE RECONSTRUCTION-1 The political flood-waters have receded...
...reaching Congressional offices, is generated (1) by his President Ford has made an effort to suture a few role as Governor in the Attica prison uprising...
...the point is that, outside of a legitimate govments...
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