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↓ ↓H↓↓βS↓∧ Department of Computer Science, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California 94305

↓ ↓H↓∧Telephone: 415 497-4430↓ 	TDecember 12, 1984 

↓ ↓H↓∧Electronic mail: JMC↓@↓∧SU-AI↓
.↓∧ARPA




↓ ↓H↓Professor S. M. Lipset
↓ ↓H↓Hoover Institution

↓ ↓H↓Dear Marty:

↓ ↓H↓        I think you missed my point about Grenada or maybe were distracted from answering it.

↓ ↓H↓        Itα
seemsα
thatα
weα
agreedα
thatα
Carterαwouldα
haveα
gainedα
creditα
forα
takingα
Grenadaα
evenαifα
he
↓ ↓H↓hadαagonizedα
onαTVαaboutα
hisαdecisionα
toαdoαso.α
 Therefore,αtheαcreditα
Reaganαgainedα
forαdoing
↓ ↓H↓so should be considered as owing to his policy as well as to his personality or image.

↓ ↓H↓        Whenα
itαturnsα
outαthatα
theαpollsα
showαtheα
publicαasα
notαagreeingα
withαReaganα
onα
whatαare
↓ ↓H↓presumedα
toα
beα
relatedα
issuesα
butα
neverthelessα
praisingα
hisα
action,α
thisα
meansα
toα
meα
thatα
notα
all
↓ ↓H↓theα
issuesα
haveα
beenα
identi≡edα
andα
madeα
aα
subjectα
ofα
polling.α
 Afterα
allα
theα
issuesα
areα
identi≡edα
by
↓ ↓H↓politicians,α
pollsters,α
journalistsα
andα
academics.α
 Thisα
identi≡cationα
isn'tα
automaticα
andα∞mayα
miss
↓ ↓H↓some that are important to the public or part of it.

↓ ↓H↓        Forα⊃example,α⊃thereα⊃couldα⊃beα⊃(orα⊃perhapsα⊃thereα⊃was)α⊃aα⊃seriesα⊃ofα⊃pollα⊃questionsα⊃likeα⊃the
↓ ↓H↓following.

↓ ↓H↓1. Has the U.S. let itself be pushed around too much by foreign countries?

↓ ↓H↓2. Is this (very important, important, not very important, unimportant)?

↓ ↓H↓3. Which party (which candidate) is more likely to resist the U.S. being pushed around?

↓ ↓H↓4.α
Isαtheα
U.S.α(tooα
patient,αaboutα
right,αtooα
impatient)αwhenα
ourαpeopleα
areαthreatenedα
orαattacked
↓ ↓H↓in foreign countries?

↓ ↓H↓        Beforeαthisα
couldαbeαdiscussedα
asαanαissueα
itαwouldαneedα
aαname,αe.g.α
"nationalαdignity"αorα
if
↓ ↓H↓you want to denigrate it "jingoism".


↓ ↓H↓Sincerely,



↓ ↓H↓John McCarthy
↓ ↓H↓Professor of Computer Science