European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes George will april 1977 Carter opens Duel now its up to Congress ilk warm april breezes blow vivid Winston the Cassandra who the Anvil of but Carter la auda celled by the general Public i of Dogwood president Carter anticipated War and urged preparation for piously summoning sacrifice in Good times ask is people to Trust his while warm april breezes blow vivid drifts of Dogwood president Carter labors to convince the country that nature can be he says the Energy a manifestation of natures is the kind of Challenge William James called the moral equivalent of but democracies rarely have responded prudently even when unmistakable Clouds of actual War were on the Winston the Cassandra who anticipated War and urged preparation for struck most britons As tiresome and overwrought until Germany struck and not until japanese zeros struck Low Over Hawaii horizon did the United states take seriously the gathered the Furnace of War melts resistance to people Are pounded together on the Anvil of but Carter is audaciously summoning sacrifice in Good times in order to buy time time to seek substitutes for a currently indispensable and diminishing resource foresight is the essence of statesman and timing is the test of a prudent statesman must anticipate the shape of the and speak about the problems it poses they Are per f o t celled by the general so be most ask is people to Trust his discomforting vision More than their own More Comfort Able Carters problem is that Trust in presi dents has been in understandably Short Supply and Many people Are dogmatically sceptical about the ability of for that geology anticipate the shape of future Oil Supply for the Wall Street journal insists the Way to solve Energy prob lems without taking it out of the country hide is to encourage the journals guiding axiom is that one Way or if you pay More for something you get More of one Way or that axiom is quite True regarding Olive but not regarding the kind of Oil at in part because it takes somewhat longer to make crude Oil than to make Olive Oil per sons who think they know product too incentives sufficient to solve the Energy crisis should remember that the sudden multiplication of the fishes and loaves re quires a not just free Market Price Carter might have been Able to Complete two terms without squarely confronting the Energy his successor could not have avoided but now Carter is learn As All his predecessors that the presidency is an meaning weak of most of what a president says Politi Cally if not in the Subj unc William Safire Lasky Book is a political event Many of the nations Book reviewers Are Purling at the Prospect of having to Deal with it didst Start with water a political consciousness expanding Book by Victor they cannot ignore it this first carefully researched blast of criticism at the fusion of hypocrisy and hysteria that gripped this nation in 1973 and 1974 is both a literary and a political since most hardcover Book buyers and Sellers cheerfully admit to being confirmed the task of reviewers addressing a Liberal audience is to Savage Vaskys work in a Way that does not stimulate readers to buy his we can expect the Lasky Book id saw for Short to be attacked As not suitably a Standard hardly set for the self serving watergate Litera Ture to it is argue infused with righteous Wrath but it is an extensive list of sources can be found in the Back historians will find it Many reviewers will affix the worst sell ing Label of All and so it unabashedly from a Man who believes that some wrongheaded actions should not have outweighed the strengths of our just Frost de the details of crimes and improprieties committed during the Johnson and Kennedy administrations almost set Forth in this work will be dismissed with a Cavalier body did it is no that one of those undeniable state but if perspective is Worth gaining after that the work of history then a look at Vaskys enumerations should convince All but diehards that the and abuses of Power of the period from 1961 to 1969 beat anything that happened before or those crimes have been dribbling out Over the past three amassed for the first time Between two from Ken Nedy Mafi Acia Tisins to lbs illegal use of the Fri Vaskys compilation reveals a pattern of deceit and the easy toleration of Power abuse that will stun the most a the theme that emerges might be called a secondary Mccar thy in which civil liberties were sus Pended in the name of civil and Many of those who pointed the fingers of guilt were men with guilty there were six each now said to be the recipient of illegal Gulf Oil Contri charging impropriety in fund Rais ing there was the who engineered the coverup of Bobby Baker for charging coverup there was an impeachment secret author of the Doar plan to spy on Iveigh ing against the Huston plan there was the Crew that wiretapped Martin Luther King waxing indignant at now we know but Lasky were we not permitted to know during the Witch Hunt years the information was there where were the investigative re where were the Public spirited leaders one example he Points to hard Evi Dence that the democratic National com Mittee knew months in Advance of the planned breaking of their Headquarters by a group of the report on that pc breaking Tipoff was suppressed the witnesses Are still but no Law enforcement Agency or committee will Lasky thinks the reason is rooted in a partisan double a visceral Media hatred of a political Man named and the blood lust of a running but perhaps there is More to the Amaz ing Exchange of roles during the second Mccarthy when civil libertarians became Lawa Dorder nobody can deny now that so much was deliberately concealed which might have Miti gated the what were the real Rea sons for the real coverup time will or whose the Washington Bureau Ben Brad wrote a Book that is Vaskys prime source for the most damaging indictments of John Lasky May have intended to write a socket everybody Idit de sense of but the import of his Book is More he opens a line of inquiry that demands to be followed what made guilty politicians anxious to accuse others of their and what made innocent accusers so willing to suspend self critical judgment open your read Vaskys Block Buster id saw is not like any Book on the watergate c new York times Colum co is ments live mood because he can do Little a presidents principal Power is the highly contingent Power to persuade and Congress hears a discordant clamor of other in responding to Carters Vari Ous industries and other interests have struck moving rather like the dying All shall Rise to fight on Capitol where each will receive a bearing for its explanation of Why the part of the pro Gram that inconveniences it contradicts the dictates of reason and their some meritorious and some will be parochial and hence congenial to they will not fall on Stony it would be remarkable if car ters program could not be As Napoleon he who says he has made War without making mistakes has made but Little and Carter has opened a Multi front War on numerous american habits and but because he has just retreated from the tax rebate and from some condemnations of water his who suddenly Are Are wondering what kind of Warrior he is he Stonewall whose retreats were tactics serving a strategy of swirling offence or is he George Resolute Only along the line of least Resis Tance with his Energy Carter has drawn his sword of leadership and he must use it against the fractious Congress us party including car ters depends upon his now resembling English statesman John As described by the Earl of Clarendon in his great history of the English civil War without when lie first Drew the he threw away the wish Nylon Hast the opinions i print in columns on jew mgt represent Tho Leol my to be considered representing the views of the sure and sir ipes or Trie 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