Coersion, After All, Merely Captures

While Other [military] Alliances Have Been Formed To Win Wars, Our Fundamental Purpose Is To Prevent War While Preserving And Extending The Frontiers Of Freedom.

Yet Optimism Is In Order, Because Day By Day Democracy Is Proving Itself To Be A Not-at-all-fragile Flower. From Stettin On The Baltic To Varna On The Black Sea, The Regimes Planted By Totalitarianism Have Had More Than 30 Years To Establish Their Legitimacy. But None - Not One Regime - Has Yet Been Able To Risk Free Elections. Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

America's View Of Apartheid Is Simple And Straightforward: We Believe It Is Wrong. We Condemn It. And We Are United In Hoping For The Day When Apartheid Will Be No More.

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

In Opening Our Hearts, We Hope This Might Promote Greater Awareness Of This Condition. Perhaps It Will Encourage A Clearer Understanding Of The Individuals And Families Who Are Affected By It.