{"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’s The Little Decisions That Matter Most"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had already put Frederick Kempe’s Berlin 1961<\/a> on my list of books to read based on this review in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. But then I read this quote<\/a> which makes me want to read it even more:<\/p>\n

“I want Americans to understand how the decisions of their presidents — then and now — shape world history in ways we don’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 — 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.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had already put Frederick Kempe’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: “I want Americans to understand how the decisions of their presidents — then and now — […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t