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Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro. The second installment of what promises to be the longest and liveliest American political biography of modern times finds Lyndon Johnson transforming what were certainly not his finest hours into tarnished triumphs. To wit: avoiding World War II combat for as long as possible and then parlaying a few minutes under fire into a Silver Star; and stealing the 1948 Texas senatorial election with 87 questionable votes -- enough to earn him the nickname Landslide Lyndon...
Whatever might have happened behind the scenes, onstage Gorbachev moved abruptly to the right. He proposed constitutional changes, which he hopes to ram through the Congress of People's Deputies, that would further strengthen presidential authority. He announced plans to form civilian vigilante groups to combat black markets and profiteering, and put the KGB in charge of monitoring the distribution of foreign food. Most striking, he sacked Vadim Bakatin, the moderate Interior Minister, and replaced him with a two-man team: Boris Pugo, former chief of the Latvian KGB, as minister; and General Boris Gromov, an officer often said...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had conceded before Waller piped up that not all the troops would be "combat ready" by mid-January. But Cheney did not suggest that this should force a postponement of any offensive; Waller...
...Bush Administration's latest attempt to flog the race issue began with the debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1990. Passed last October by congressional Democrats, with the help of some Republicans, the measure was designed to make it easier for women and minorities to combat job discrimination. The bill's supporters insisted its main effect would be to offset damage done to earlier practices by a series of Supreme Court decisions. Bush said he supported that goal but argued that the bill's specific provisions would pressure employers to adopt quotas as a means of avoiding litigation...
...taking out a number of people, all of us were filled with hate and anger. Who picked the lucky ones? we asked ourselves. Why them and not others? News that George Bush would not permit the presence of hostages to influence his foreign policy saddened us. I was a combat veteran who had served in Vietnam. I wanted to count for something. Even the news that the President would spend Thanksgiving with the troops, such a short distance away, depressed me. You begin to feel abandoned. Your mind turns soggy...