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Over the years, Halle’s
Spring in Washington has won a devoted following of nature enthusiasts for its depictions of the drama of spring’s arrival. But Halle’s devotion to the ecological view earned him another group of admirers in the nation’s capital.
“I had not had compunctions at interrupting the dictation of an official document to observe, from a government window, a flight of swans moving south overhead; and while I have now forgotten what the official paper was about, I remember the swans.” Taking a break from his daily work for this glance out the window and into the more permanent workings of the world was Louis Halle, an official in the State Department with a naturalist’s instinct and a philosophical bent. Largely forgotten today, Halle was a prolific mid-century author who wrote principally about both nature and about international relations and often, about the relationship between the two. He was an intimate of Dean Acheson, George Kennan, and Paul Ni
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Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board.
In June 1982, President Ronald Reagan delivered a fire-eating speech before the British House of Commons that is best remembered for his prediction that democratic nations would triumph and communism would end up on âthe ash heap of history.â
The speech also helped to popularize a relatively new English word: infrastructure.
Mr. Reagan didnât predict victory by default. He said the United States would pursue the end of communism by investing in âthe infrastructure of democracy.â
Almost four decades later, the word is on everyoneâs lips, at least here in Washington, but no one seems quite sure what it means. President Biden has proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes money for âcommunity college infrastructure,â for care programs for older and disabled Americans and for electric-car charging stations.
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