Core Values and Strategic Globalism through 1988

William O. Walker III

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William O. Walker III

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[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population.…Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security.

George F. Kennan, 1948

My basic approach is that foreigners are out to screw us. Our job is to screw them first.

John Connally, 1971

I had come to believe firmly that people had the right to choose their own governments.

Donald Fraser, 1973

[Ronald Reagan's] determination to reverse the apparent flow of history underpinned the entirety of his foreign policy.

Robert M. Gates, 1996

Martin Luther King Jr. was dead. Walter Lippmann would die in 1974. Senator J. William Fulbright had grown despondent about the “secrecy and deception” of the executive branch and its assault on the Constitution, so much so that he had refused in 1970 to co-sponsor the McGovern-Hatfield “Amendment to End the War” because it would have continued aid for the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in South Vietnam. The next year he decided not to join Jacob Javits in initiating what would become the War Powers Act. George F. Kennan was ensconced in semi-seclusion at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Robert F. Kennedy was dead, although his place in this pantheon among the critics of American power was not secure at the time of his assassination in June 1968.

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Information: National Security and Core Values in American History , pp. 167 - 202

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