PLAIN TALK

 

 

Leonard Horwin                                                                                                                       September 9, 2004

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                                                                       EXCHANGE!

 

Questions and Answers are cited below as “Q” and “A”

 


1.        Q:   Exchange of what?

 

A:   Exchange of goods, services and views.

 

2.        Q:   Why exchange?

 

A:   Because looking, for example, at my current issues of Los Angeles Business Journal and Orange County Business Journal and news media generally, I can see that it is basic exchange which marks our civilization and underlying majesty.

 

3.        Q:   Exchange from what vistas?

 

A:   Basically from the Big Bang from which this planet emerged from  12 to 13 billion years ago, and it is apparent at once that  there is a tremendous change from the molecule in the primal ooze to the world we are in.

 

4.        Q:   And why is that exchange important?

 

A:   Because it encompasses eventually all men and women, –and looks, –both forward,  as I do, –moving shortly into 92 years of age, plus looking  backward  to remind ourselves of how tremendous is the gradual exchange in the evolution of man, and how much courage that should give us for the human  future.

 

A good  place from which to evaluate that human future is the Chinese Lin Yu Tang’s volume on “The Importance of  Living,” published by the John Day Company of  New York in 1937, the year.

 

The book is a “must” read for today’s human future.

 

 

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cc:         George W. Bush, President    

       Richard Cheney, Vice President

             Colin Powell, Secretary of State

            Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

Condoleezza Rice, National Security

   Advisor

Colonel Oliver North

                        Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland

           Security

John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary

Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the

       U.S. House of Representatives


Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister               for the Israeli Government

Israel’s  “Women In Green”

National Unity Coalition for Israel

Arianna Huffington, Syndicated

            Columnist

Oriana Fallaci, International Journalist,

     Interviewer and Author

Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem

    Institute for Western Defense

Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic

     About the Middle East)

Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief -

US News and World Report

Time Magazine

Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward

International Jerusalem Post

The Weekly Standard – Bill Kristol, Editor

The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and

   Op-Ed Department

Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department

Jordan and Mary Zoe Phillips,

    Medical Books for China International