One thing Rogers hasn't wavered on is his long-standing support of legislation that limits greenhouse-gas emissions from industries like his own -- achievable, he believes, through a mix of carbon caps, swaps and offsets.
But every American President from Truman through Carter believed, or acted as if he believed, that through some combination of firmness and restraint, of patient negotiation and occasional sharp confrontation, time could be bought that would allow the Soviet Union to evolve in such a way as eventually to make the Manichaean East-West struggle obsolete.
Besides hard work, he believed that through education a person could achieve and accomplish anything.
He believed that through talking freely, the difficult conflict could be borne and the symptom would dissolve.
Mr. Woronka said this approach was typical in his industry, but he believed that through targeted outreach Action could both lure business from competitors and expand its territory.
In an email to Chicago police employees announcing his decision, Superintendent Johnson said he believed "that through these challenges we can take the lessons learned to become a better department".
Mr. Lewis admitted in the testimony that he believed going through with the takeover would hurt shareholders in the short term, but had to be done to "stem a financial disaster in the financial markets".
"The Louisville Lip,'' they called him, and it wouldn't have worked except he backed up everything he said, stood by everything he believed, fought through everything in his path, from racism to religious discrimination to skepticism that a fighter could use the power of conviction to connect the world.
Men, he believed, exercised power through violent subjugation; women exercised power through erotically tinged persuasion.
