What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.