| December 10, 1975In our continuing series
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| | Beame as America's largest city neared
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| of Great Recants, that pronounced
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| | bankruptcy. He now says, "The very
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| recently by former Ohio Governor John J.
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| | practices I advocated 10 and 20 years ago
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| Gilligan has to rank near the top.The
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| | are responsible for our present
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| once-vocal champion of labor-liberal
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| | difficulty. The borrowing of money to
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| causes startled his fellow Democrats at a
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| | pay debt was a mistake. It is a bitter
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| recent National Issues Convention in
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| | lesson."On federal control - by U.N.
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| Louisville, Kentucky, by blasting a trio
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| | Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, then
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| of popular programs - a national health
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| | assistant secretary of labor under
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| proposal, federal involvement in
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| | President John F. Kennedy. He now says,
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| environmental protection, and federal
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| | "American liberals are guilty of
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| housing and community development.
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| | over-protecting the good name of the
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| "Heretical as it may sound to some, I am
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| | poor, of over-selling underfinanced
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| very reluctant to see the federal
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| | programs and of avoiding evidence of poor
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| government launch a nation-wide health
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| | results. In particular (we liberals)
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| insurance program simply on the grounds
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| | have paid too little heed to the limited
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| that in the decade since Medicare and
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| | capacities of government bureaus to bring
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| Medicaid have appeared, we have poured
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| | about social change."On new math - by the
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| millions into the health care delivery
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| | California State Board of Education which
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| system without improving materially
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| | a decade ago started the education fad.
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| either the level of health or its
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| | The board now says, "Not everyone needs
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| availability for most American families,"
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| | conceptual theory. The ability to
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| said Gilligan.He went on to suggest that
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| | balance a checkbook or add up a grocery
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| most of these federal programs could be
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| | list is basic."On permissive behavior -
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| better handled on a state or regional
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| | by Dr. Benjamin Spock, baby care
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| level. Inasmuch as this position is
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| | specialist and Vietnam War objector. He
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| exactly that of Presidential Hopeful
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| | now says, "We have reared a generation of
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| Ronald Reagan, the convention delegates
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| | brats. Parents aren't firm enough with
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| were flabbergasted."I guess it is a
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| | their children for fear of losing their
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| departure from some of my previous
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| | love or incurring their resentment. This
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| thinking," Gilligan said, "but there are
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| | is a cruel deprivation that we
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| many things I believed in ten years ago
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| | professionals have imposed on mothers and
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| when I was in Congress that now have
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| | fathers. Of course, we did it with the
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| proved not to work."The aplomb with which
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| | best of intentions. We didn't realize
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| dogmatic opinion leaders whirl 180
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| | until it was too late how our know-it-all
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| degrees when their assertions fail never
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| | attitude was undermining the self
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| ceases to amaze me.Yet we must
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| | assurance of parents."
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| acknowledge the intellectual courage such
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| | Let us concede that those who espouse
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| reversals require.If only those clearer
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| | hard work, self sufficiency, thrift,
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| thinkers who tell it like it is could be
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| | simple skills, craftsmanship and all the
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| accorded the same consideration as the
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| | other old fashioned virtues may know what
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| self-appointed oracles!We delay or
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| | they are talking about.As we search the
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| destroy good causes at great expense and
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| | list of beautiful social theories of the
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| travail simply because those who advocate
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| | last few decades, what has succeeded?Not
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| caution are vilified.We are justified in
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| | the New Deal, nor the Square Deal, nor
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| questioning the remaining pie-in-the-sky
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| | the New Frontier, nor the Great
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| proposals still being thumped up by
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| | Society.Not public housing, rent
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| activists with much rhetoric and little
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| | subsidies, campus rioting, black power,
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| logic.Regular readers of this column will
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| | isolationism, foreign aid, sexual
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| recall some of the other Great Recants of
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| | freedom, affirmative action, welfare,
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| recent years:
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| | hiring quotas, free tuition.Social
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| | Security, Medicare and unemployment
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| On school bussing - by Dr. James
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| | compensation survive at great expense but
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| Coleman, sociologist for the University
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| | stand in jeopardy.In view of the long and
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| of Chicago who launched the integration
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| | sorry record of error on the part of
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| tool with a federal report in 1964. He
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| | yesterday's theorists, we would be better
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| now says, "Only under certain specific
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| | served by a new generation of
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| circumstances does integration improve
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| | pragmatists.Better to count small
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| black classroom performance - when the
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| | blessings than recant large
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| number of blacks introduced is not
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| | mistakes.Lindsey Williams is a Sun
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| sufficiently large to alter the
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| | columnist who can be contacted
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| middle-class ethos of the classroom.
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| | at:Website: with several hundred of
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| When these limits are exceeded, the
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| | Lin's articles written over 40 years, and
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| ghetto ethos prevails."On deficit
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| | his book "Boldly Onward," about the
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| spending - by New York Mayor Abraham
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| | original explorers of America.
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