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Insofar As It Represents A Genuine Reconciliation Of Differences, A Consensus Is A Fine Thing; Insofar As It Represents A Concealment Of Differences, It Is A Miscarriage Of Democratic Procedure.

There Is Nothing Obscure About The Objectives Of Educational Exchange. Its Purpose Is To Acquaint Americans With The World As It Is And To Acquaint Students And Scholars From Many Lands With America As It Is-not As We Wish It Were Or As We Might Wish Foreigners To See It, But Exactly As It Is-which By My Reckoning Is An "image" Of Which No American Need Be Ashamed.

Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy That Explained Everything To Us In Advance, And Everything That Did Not Fit Could Be Readily Identified As A Fraud Or A Lie Or An Illusion... The Perniciousness Of The Anti-communist Ideology Of The Truman Doctrine Arises Not From Any Patent Falsehood But From Its Distortion And Simplification Of Reality, From Its Universalization And Its Elevation To The Status Of A Revealed Truth.

It Is Amazing How Soon One Becomes Accustomed To The Sound Of Ones Voice, When Forced To Repeat A Speech Five Or Six Times A Day. As Election Day Approaches, The Size Of The Crowds Grows; They Are More Responsive And More Interested; And One Derives A Certain Exhilaration From That Which, Only A Few Weeks Before, Was Intensely Painful. This Is One Possible Explanation Of Unlimited Debate In The Senate.

As A Conservative Power, The United States Has A Vital Interest In Upholding And Expanding The Reign Of Law In International Relations.