Pollin, Robert | Baker, Dean
Reindustrializing America: A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs
Publication Date: 4/28/2010
The corporation's responsibiities, per Johnson & Johnson CEO, 1948, in order of priority:
1. First responsibility is to those who use our product; we must offer high quality at low prices, and deliver our product with prompt, accurate service.
2. Second responsibility is to all employees of the corporation, providing fair pay, job security, healthy working conditions, respect for each individual, and justice in management and governance of both employees and operations.
3. Third responsibility is to hire corporate executives possessing integrity, talent, common sense, personal wisdom, education, and experience.
4. Four responisibility is to the communities in which our corporate facilities are embedded. Corporations must be good citizens, contributing to the health and viability of the commonweal, supporting civic improvement, improved health, education, and government, reinvest in the corporation's larger community and infrastructure by paying fair taxes, and being good stewards of the unsustainable resources used in conducting business activities.
6. Last responsibility is to shareholders/stockholders via creation of sound, sustainable profit and fair returns to investors.
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""Water-whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold-will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous," wrote the scholar Maude Barlow."
My question is answered. These candid photos of the perfect American family surely garnered him support. Did the attractiveness of his family help him? Most likely the people were just as intrigued by the image of upper class eastern life that the Kennedys presented, with it's fashion, athleticism, education, all resources which were starting to become increasingly valuable with the mass market.
Kennedy's ads presented him as ready to lead during a time of great tension in
the world, highlighted his commitment to create jobs and equal opportunities for
all Americans, and questioned whether Nixon was exaggerating his experience.
"He looked sick, but also a little unsure," Albert W. Upton, who had been
Nixon's drama coach at Whittier College, told The New York Times. And
Nixon's former law partner, Thomas Bewley, said, "Dick just didn't look good.
His...clothes were wrong. He didn't have the old spirit."
Style over substance in the Mass Media. The Kennedys were always avid presenters, able to make others view them in the best light possible. They carefully crafted their image to conform to the American ideal.
the tanned, photogenic Democratic candidate for President
A lot of these articles mention Kennedy's physical attractiveness. Did that add to his appeal? Perhaps it gave him additional celebrity and helped to make him a public figure, beloved by the people. Did the Media's coverage of him help in this respect? Did the images presented of him always show him at his best? Perhaps he new how to use his handsomeness and the press to his advantage as he knew he would appear to advantage in photos and on television.
"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be."