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196. Hedrick Smith, reporting the opinion of US policy makers, NYT, Dec. 8,
1967; Congressional Record, April 13, 1967, S5054-7, memorandum
introduced by George Kahin. On the elections, see Herman and
Brodhead, Demonstration Elections.
197. Samuel Huntington, “American ideals.”
198. President Reagan, interview, NYT, Feb. 12, 1985; Reagan described our
“good relationship” with Marcos adding that “we realize there is an
opposition party that we believe is also [sic] pledged to democracy”.
Bush in State Department Bulletin 81, August 1981, 30.
199. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, I, quoted by Takaki, Iron
Cages, 80-1.
200. Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation”, 78, 74, citing the New York Criterion
and Salt Lake City Tribune; 123, 220f., 247; Sixto Lopez, The Outlook,
April 13, 1901.
201. Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America (U. of North Carolina, 1975),
especially chapter 13; 46, 110, 83, 173n, 12. Editorial, NYT, Aug. 6,
1954; see TNCW, 99, for further discussion. A notable contemporary
parallel is the takeover of Palestine on Scriptural authority, “dunam after
dunam,” with comparable disdain for the rights of the native population
(if they even existed, a fact that many deny, just as myths of sparse and
nomadic Indian population persisted, on ideological grounds, until recent
years; Jennings, 16f.).
202. Editorials, June 20, June 29, 1954; Arthur Krock, NYT, June 29, 1954.
203. McCann, American Company, 171, 46, 59-60, 47.
204. Bernard Fall, New Republic, Oct. 9, 1965; James Reston, NYT, Feb. 26,
1965.
205. Bernard Fall, Last Reflections on a War (Doubleday, 1967), 33, 47;
James Reston, NYT, Nov. 24, 1967; John King Fairbank, American
Historical Review, Feb. 1969.
206. William V. Shannon, NYT, Sept. 28, 1974; BG, May 8, 1985.
207. Ken Anderson, BG, Oct. 1, 1984.
208. Editorial, New Republic, April 2, 1984.
209. Bonner, Weakness and Deceit, 160.