![]() ![]() A moral sense of knowing the difference between right and wrong and of being governed by it. But something more seems to me to have happened, and that is the loss of-and now I get moralistic - of a moral sense, which I think has caused a great deal of change from the kind of people we were. A negative vision, you know, like stopping the Russians, or containing the Russians, or whatever, doesn’t get anybody very excited. We have nothing that’s exhilarating, nothing that’s drawing us forward. And that was extremely-that was very exhilarating, the idea that they had the opportunity to create a new political system. I don’t think they thought at the beginning of establishing a new form of government, but very soon they realized that that was what they were doing. You asked the question not long ago, “What’s happened to the America of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson?” In writing The First Salute, have you found the answer?īARBARA TUCHMAN: It was terribly exciting, the American Revolution. I think we should have a law of some kind that would require political appearance to be live. ![]() BILL MOYERS: Would you ban the use of the political commercial, the 30-second, the 60-second spot?īARBARA TUCHMAN: Oh, yes. ![]()
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