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Minority Report

Hitchens, Christopher | December 13, 1986 issue

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The article presents information on the minority report in the U.S. Over the past few years various flatterers and time servers in Washington have evolved the notion of President Ronald Reagan's doctrine. This doctrine was moderately intelligible long before Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North became a household name. It rested on certain explicit principles. The U.S. was to be among those present whenever any anticommunist fighters debated their next move, however quixotic or extreme. Congress and the public, especially after their ingratitude to former Presidents Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

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REAGAN, Ronald; POLITICAL doctrines; PRESIDENTS -- United States; KISSINGER, Henry, 1923-; COMMUNIST societies; UNITED States
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