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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

By James Reston
The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

By James Reston
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

By James Reston
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

By James Reston
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

By James Reston