The First Rule Of Democracy Is To

There Is Far Less To The Presidency, In Terms Of Essential Activity, Than Meets The Eye.

Few Secret Undertakings Ever Did Any Nation Any Good.

For Most Americans The Constitution Had Become A Hazy Document, Cited Like The Bible On Ceremonial Occasions But Forgotten In The Daily Transactions Of Life.

What We Need Is A Rebirth Of Satire, Of Dissent, Of Irreverence, Of An Uncompromising Insistence That Phoniness Is Phony And Platitudes Are Platitudinous.

I Trust That A Graduate Student Some Day Will Write A Doctoral Essay On The Influence Of The Munich Analogy On The Subsequent History Of The Twentieth Century. Perhaps In The End He Will Conclude That The Multitude Of Errors Committed In The Name Of Munich May Exceed The Original Error Of 1938.