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Poor Planning Or Poor Execution Of Plans Is Simply To Let Some Force Other Than Reason Shape Reality.

Action Should Be Founded On Contemplation, And Those Of Us Who Act Don't Put Enough Time, Don't Give Enough Emphasis, To Contemplation.

All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.

It Was A Perfectly Beautiful Night, As Fall Nights Are In Washington. I Walked Out Of The President's Oval Office, And As I Walked Out, I Thought I Might Never Live To See Another Saturday Night.

The War In Vietnam Is Going Well And Will Succeed.