Ethics Must Be Reintroduced To Public Service

A Handful Of Us Determine What Will Be On The Evening News Broadcasts, Or, For That Matter, In The New York Times Or Washington Post Or Wall Street Journal. Indeed It Is A Handful Of Us With This Awesome Power.and Those [news Stories] Available To Us Already Have Been Culled And Re-culled By Persons Far Outside Our Control.

It Is Clear That Military Force And Our Policy Of Preemption Are Alone Insufficient To Make Us Safe. But Help Is On The Way. Legislation Has Been Proposed To Create A Us Department Of Peace. In The Propsed Department Of Peace It Would Organize Our Present System Into One Conscious Effort To Improve Humanity In Achieving Peace, Where True Safety Lies.

When Moses Was Alive, These Pyramids Were A Thousand Years Old. Here Began The History Of Architecture. Here People Learned To Measure Time By A Calendar, To Plot The Stars By Astronomy And Chart The Earth By Geometry. And Here They Developed That Most Awesome Of All Ideas - The Idea Of Eternity.

For Many Years, I Did My Best To Report On The Issues Of The Day In As Objective A Manner As Possible. When I Had My Own Strong Opinions, As I Often Did, I Tried Not To Communicate Them To My Audience. Now, However, My Circumstances Are Different. I Am In A Position To Speak My Mind. And That Is What I Propose To Do.

I'm Very Proud Of What Harry Truman Turned Out To Be In Office And The Record He Made. Certainly I Think He'll Go Down In History As One Of The Greats, Because Of His Conscience, His Determination To Stick With What He Knew Was Right.