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...moment when the American libido seems to oscillate between Puritanism and rampant exhibitionism, how significant is it that for the first time in more than 30 years the nation has elected a President with sex appeal? The last six Presidents -- Bush, Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson -- combined do not conjure up enough erotic energy to fill a single room at the No-Tell Motel. Forget Gennifer Flowers -- this is not the moment to descend into the muck of her sleazy allegations. Rather, the swooning and the cooing on the rope lines during the last breathless...
...issue that killed George Bush at the polls was the same issue that plagued him all year long: the economy. The country's anxiety over kitchen-table concerns allowed Bill Clinton to put together a coalition that is more diverse than any that has elected a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson's triumph three decades ago. Though Ross Perot's presence kept Clinton's popular vote under 50%, the Democratic coalition has the potential to endure much as < the Republican alliance did in five of the past six presidential elections...
When President Lyndon Johnson described his vision of the Great Society in 1964, he spoke of a civilization where "the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. . . Where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation." With these lofty words, he launched the most ambitious agenda of social and economic reform since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...sound bites and imagemakers, the paid political program has acquired an earnest but dreary air. The form has survived primarily as a weapon for fringe candidates like Lyndon LaRouche and as an election-eve ritual for major-party candidates, who by then are usually preaching to the converted. Perot, however, made half-hour political ads the centerpiece of his campaign -- with astonishing success. His first program, a lecture on the economy that aired in early October, drew a higher rating than the baseball play-off game it preceded. Though ratings dropped for subsequent broadcasts, Perot's month-long mini-series...
...worst hours in presidential power shifts follow the unexpected episodes like the assassination of John Kennedy. On Air Force One bringing both Kennedy's body and Lyndon Johnson, the new President, back to Washington, there played out a scene of anguish and exhilaration, a weird struggle contained in the hurtling fuselage. Devastating sorrow among the Kennedy people turned to a blind hatred against the statutory heirs to power. The Johnson group, though stunned by the death of Kennedy, could scarcely contain their satisfaction at gaining the office that had eluded them in the electoral process...