Schlesinger himself sometimes questioned his relevance within the Kennedy administration. “I have the feeling that the president somewhat discounts my views,” the White House aide wrote in his journal in September 1962,
“primarily because he regards me as a claimant agency for standardized liberalism, partly also because he considers me to be, after all, an intellectual and insufficiently practical and realistic.”
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Vladv a claimant agency for standardized liberalism I'm sorry to say that this expression is too cryptic for me to understand. A claimant agency is, for example, a government agency that is owed money. And liberalism is a political philosophy which, among other features, stands for the protection of political and civil liberties.
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Vladva claimant agency for standardized liberalism
I'm sorry to say that this expression is too cryptic for me to understand.
A claimant agency is, for example, a government agency that is owed money. And liberalism is a political philosophy which, among other features, stands for the protection of political and civil liberties. To standardize is to