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    explains, this sluggishness in the economic race can be deadly.  Says Naisbitt, "The

    United Kingdom, by growing just 1 percent less than France, Germany, and the United

    States, managed in a couple of generations to transform itself from the wealthiest society

    on Earth to a relatively poor member of the Common Market."  (John Naisbitt,

    Megatrends, pp. 58-59.)

    32. Rosalind Williams, "Reindustrialization Past and Present," p. 50.

    33. Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War:

    1890-1914, pp. 37-38.

    34. Theodore H. White, America In Search of Itself: The Making of the President,

    1956-1980, A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, Harper & Row, New York, 1982,   p.

    258.

    35. The figure is from Caddell's memo.  (Theodore H. White, America In Search of Itself:

    The Making of the President, 1956-1980,  p. 258.)

    36. Louis Harris, Inside America, Vintage Books, 1987, p.33.

    37. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1987, p. 74.

    38. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p. 79.

    39. "The Culture of Apathy," The New Republic, February 8, 1988, pp. 7-8.

    40. The campaign against the record industry is one I chronicle from personal experience.

    As co-founder of a group called Music In Action, I led a battle against music censorship,

    keeping detailed files on developments in this area, since I could be called on at any time

    to give interviews on the subject to newspaper, radio or television journalists.

    41. Moira McCormick, "VSDA Applauds As Ill. Gov. Amends Antiobscenity Bill," Billboard,

    February 20, 1988, p. 43.

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