Dear Editor
Dear Editor Foreign Policy While one cannot help admiring the good will behind Senator Hugh Scott's sanguine and conciliatory analysis of the state of the nation ("Dear Editor," NL, June 7), his...
...There is one thing, though...
...Hello...
...Geez, this connection is lousy...
...If we can just hang in there, we'll be in good shape come January, and that's no lie...
...April 20...
...Dear Editor Foreign Policy While one cannot help admiring the good will behind Senator Hugh Scott's sanguine and conciliatory analysis of the state of the nation ("Dear Editor," NL, June 7), his reasoning leaves a lot to be desired...
...No, he doesn't appear to know our exact deal, but he's getting warm...
...No, not much new here, except that things are going in our favor...
...TV Guide...
...If we are to begin to solve some of the pressing problems facing us, a first step might be lo outlaw the use of empty phrases like that one...
...There's a rag down here called The New Leader and . oh, you know it...
...This here is correspondent JC reporting from the U.S.A...
...And what is it that Americans really read...
...Speaking out intelligently and clearly, he tells us, is not in the aspirant's best interests: More important is making a name for himself and maintaining party unity...
...Finally, Scott defends the low level of foreign policy discourse in this year's Presidential campaign by citing the restrictions of the primary system and the battle for party nomination...
...What...
...Bye y'all...
...Yup, I think we have them right where we want them...
...It is almost never in a candidate's best interest, in the primaries or in the general election, to take strong, well thought-out positions and make them known...
...I can hold Hail to the-hello...
...In all, Hugh Scott's letter, attractive as its sentiments are, is actually an example of exactly what Hans J. Morgenthau was talking about in his excellent article on "Foreign Policy and the Next President (NL...
...Leaving aside his flagrant exaggeration ("vast numbers...
...The book was published by Hill & Wang, a division of FS&G...
...Yes...
...Anyway, they have a hack by the name of Walter Goodman, and that man is up to no good...
...New York City Frank Peterson Heavenly Politics "Hello...
...Well that's peachy...
...Scott fails to point out that his defense is in fact an indictment of the American political system itself...
...Is that right...
...To begin with, Scott cites as "irrefutable proof of the intellectual caliber of our democracy" the "vast numbers of histories and analyses of our political processes that are produced every week...
...Scott calls Watergate "a political aberration never before-and never again-to be experienced...
...He wrote something for them a couple of weeks ago ("Presidential Piety," NL, June 21), and it looks like he's on to us...
...Allow me to answer: Almost none...
...A far better course is to make friends and at all costs avoid making waves...
...Although it is true that the scope of the Watergate affair and the publicity surrounding it were probably unprecedented, one need only look at a decent newspaper, or read one of Scott's histories and analyses, to discover that the scandal, the shady deal, the cover-up, are all major sub-themes in American life and politics...
...Heaven...
...For in his lengthy justification of the state of the foreign policy debate in this country...
...allow me to ask two questions: How many of these histories and analyses are truly absorbed and truly influential...
...Frankly, he worries me . . You say you can take care of him...
...Scott does not mention one specific issue, except the bogus politician's invocation of "America's will and constancy...
...Chicago Leonard Ruskin Correction In The New Leader of June 21 the review of Doing Justice mistakenly listed the publisher as Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Vol. 59 • July 1976 • No. 14
