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The Subjective Focus of
US-President George W. Bush

1) is rooted in the American History, the red thread of which began with Teddy Roosevelt inauguration speech:

"To us as a people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in a new continent. We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have had to pay few of the penalties which in old countries are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization."

2) a clear separation between the original C3=created way of life and the c3=man-made aspirations was made in Woodrow Wilson inaugural address:

"The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled, and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be true to ourselves -- to ourselves as we have wished to be known in the counsels of the world and in the thought of all those who live liberty and justice and the right exalted."

3) Warren G. Harding globalized it conceptually it in his inauguration speech:

"Mankind needs a world-wide benediction of understanding. It is needed among individuals, among peoples, among governments, and it will inaugurate an era of good feeling to make the birth of a new order. In such understanding men will strive confidently for the promotion of their better relationships and nations will promote the comities so essential to peace."

4) to be turned into an IMPERATIVE by Calvin Coolidge's inaugural address, March 4, 1925:

"We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change. We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course. We have been, and propose to be, more and more American. We believe that we can best serve our country and most successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing to be openly and candidly, intensely and scrupulously, American. If we have any heritage, it has been that. If we have any destiny, we have found it in that direction. The physical configuration of the earth has separated us from all of the Old World , but the common brotherhood of man, the highest law of all our being, has united us by inseparable bonds with all humanity."

5) It became a program in Herbert Hoover's inaugural address, March 4, 1929:

"We are steadily building a new race--a new civilization great in its own attainments. The influence and high purposes of our Nation are respected among the peoples of the world. We aspire to distinction in the world, but to a distinction based upon confidence in our sense of justice as well as our accomplishments within our own borders and in our own lives. The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. They fail to see that the idealism of America will lead it to no narrow or selfish channel , but inspire it to do its full share as a nation toward the advancement of civilization . It will do that not by mere declaration but by taking a practical part in supporting all useful international undertakings. We not only desire peace with the world, but to see peace maintained throughout the world. We wish to advance the reign of justice and reason toward the extinction of force."

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