David Halberstam dies ("the best and the brightest")

[Erik Hoover]

The allegeed LBJism immediately summons the album and song "Free Your
Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow" released by Funkadelic in 1971.

Erik

On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:

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> According to _Brewer's Dictionary of 20th-Century Phrase and
> Fable_, "the phrase was linked with President Theodore Roosevelt,
> who in conversation with Douglans MacArthur, summed up his
> attributes as leader of the US nation in terms of his ability to
> 'put into words what is in their hearts and minds but not in their
> mouths'" (no date given).
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> The phrase "hearts and minds" appears prominently in translations
> of--and writings about--the education reformer Henry Pestalozzi:
> for example, Edward Biber, _Henry Pestalozzi, and His Plan of
> Education_ (1831), p. 18. In 1920, the full phrase "win the hearts
> and minds" appears in Roger de Guimps, _Pestalozzi: His Life and
> Work_ (p. 161).
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> In reference to the Vietnam war, as I recall, the phrase "win the
> hearts and minds" came from the jargon of the US government
> regarding its strategy for defeating "Communism."
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> And don't forget the purported LBJism: "If you've got them by the
> balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
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> --Charlie
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>> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:56:03 -0400
>> From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: David Halberstam dies ("the best and the brightest")
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>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>>> The Yale Book of Quotations has "the best and the brightest" for
>>> Halberstam but I think he was also known for "hearts and minds."
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>> Any details on that?
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>> Fred Shapiro
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