{"id":4324,"date":"2011-05-30T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2011-05-30T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:52:05","slug":"its-the-little-decisions-that-matter-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Little Decisions That Matter Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had already put Frederick Kempe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Berlin-1961-Frederick-Kempe\/dp\/0399157298\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1306781194&amp;sr=8-1\">Berlin 1961<\/a> on my list of books to read based on <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704816604576335594159928256.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5\">this review in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. But then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/30\/the_epicenter_of_the_cold_war.html?fb_ref=fb&amp;fb_source=home_oneline\">this quote<\/a> which makes me want to read it even more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;I want Americans to understand how the decisions of their presidents &#8212; then and now &#8212; shape world history in ways we don&#8217;t always understand at the time of a specific event. I want readers to know that Kennedy could have prevented the Berlin Wall, if he had wished, and that in acquiescing to the border closure he not only created a more dangerous situation &#8212; but also contributed to mortgaging the future for tens of millions of Central and Eastern Europeans. The relatively small decisions that U.S. presidents make have huge, often global, consequences.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/121591\/\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had already put Frederick Kempe&#8217;s Berlin 1961 on my list of books to read based on this review in the Wall Street Journal. But then I read this quote which makes me want to read it even more: &#8220;I want Americans to understand how the decisions of their presidents &#8212; then and now &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26,12],"tags":[612,152,611],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","category-tom","tag-berlin","tag-cold-war","tag-presidency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}