Word: eds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mental collage of its dense popular culture; one remembers it now with a small smile of disbelief at the ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...
...seems to cater too much to the Southern fundamentalists, for example, he risks alienating urban ethnic voters in the North. Some of Reagan's backers in Detroit and elsewhere are demonstrating the zealotry that helped lose the election for Goldwater and lean perform the same feat for Reagan. Says Ed Meese, Reagan's chief of staff: "It is a difficult balancing act on some of these things, but it is a necessary one to reflect the broad spectrum of support Ronald Reagan gets...
...Ed Turanchik, Anderson's State Field Coordinator in Michigan, elaborates more coolly on the possibility of a political realignment comparable to the one which brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt to power in 1932 and solidified the New Deal Coalition...
Chief of Staff Ed Meese is an old Reagan loyalist with an easygoing, reassuring presence and skills as a coordinator...
Give Dave Anderson, Dave Kindred and Leigh Montville columns on their respective newspapers' op-ed pages. Move David Broder over to sports...