More Weeding Quotes

• "The first construction crew would arrive on the moon sometime during the period 2000-2005. By the year 2010, the base would be able to support 30 human beings for months at a time."
• "President-elect George Bush, President Ronald Reagan, and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev take a break for sightseeing during the Soviet leader's visit to New York in December 1988. Recent advances between the two superpowers in the reduction of nuclear arms have contributed to a thawing of the Cold War."
• "Political changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which have started a movement toward greater personal freedom and the development of market-based economies, could profoundly alter political and economic relationships between the Communist world and the West."
• Referring to National Guard entrance requirements:
  "The good moral character requirement establishes standards to screen out persons likely to become disciplinary problems. Standards cover court convictions, juvenile delinquency, arrests, drug use, homosexuality, deviant behavior, etc."
• "'We'd also like to ban all smoking on short flights.'"
• "The minimum drinking age in most states is now 21."
• Discussing the future of police work:
  "Patrol cars will be equipped wwith computers so that, while remaining behind the wheel, an officer can instantly call up needed data on a suspicious person or vehicle."
• "Another use of computers is networking. By using modems to link computers through telephone lines, people can make their computers "talk" to one another."
• "A letter of introduction is always handed to you unsealed. It is correct for you to seal it at once in the presence of the author...But the obligation of a written introduction is so strong that only illness or absence can excuse the recipient from asking you to her house--either formally or informally."

And a title:

Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan