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...Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The Reagan Administration [is] ripping itself apart. . . the President and his closest associates seem to lack the political energy and the grasp of detail required for a mid-term renewal...
...corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last month with three long articles portraying White's career as approaching a tragic end thanks to his machine Time magazine chimed in with a similar piece on January 3 Globe columnist lan Menzies then summed up the prevailing media wisdom last Thursday. "If he does not run, he will be remembered, barring any indictment, for what he did for the city, which is not inconsiderable. If he runs, and gets slaughtered, that's what history will remember...
Outside observers, including New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, have rallied to McCray's defense. When a St. Petersburg attorney phoned him and volunteered to help, McCray remembers, "I started to cry. I can't stop crying in this place. It meant so much to me, after all the other things that happened, that this man cared...
...complaints from the Administration. On Election Night, Gergen telephoned CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl to condemn remarks made by her and her colleagues that the results were a referendum on Reaganomics and that it was likely to be "a Democratic night." Ten days later, Reagan complained to conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick that TV coverage of the economy was persistently unfair. Said Kilpatrick, paraphrasing Reagan: "CBS in particular, he remarked, seemed determined to distort the economic picture by excessive concentration on the bad news...
Judith Martin, 44, the columnist "Miss Manners," on not wanting to kiss fellow TV talk-show guests: "It's a form of name dropping. I simply come out and say, 'How do you do?' very stiffly. It drives them crazy-and it's not without malice...