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TIME'S coverage of last week's mid-term elections has been in preparation for many months, of course. Our correspondents have been on the campaign trail from the start. Editors, writers and researchers supplemented the reportage by conducting numerous interviews in New York. Indeed, two of the fresh new faces on this week's cover have been familiar to our staff for some time. California's John Tunney dropped by last April for 90 minutes of coffee and conversation, while New York's James Buckley was quizzed on his views during lunch in early...
...only basis for the Republicans' claims of overall success in the election was a negative one: they had held their losses below what a President's party normally loses in an off-year election. That historical pattern of mid-term defeats does exist, but it usually results after a President has won his own office so strongly two years previously that he has brought in marginal candidates; these then become vulnerable when they run on their own. Nixon had no such vulnerable retinue: he was the first incoming President since Zachary Taylor in 1848 to fail to bring...
RICHARD NIXON, political analyst, is always the best explicator of Richard Nixon, political performer. While moving into the grand finale of his party's 1970 campaign, he made clear why he is making the most vigorous presidential effort ever in a mid-term election: "I think that this campaign will be determined in the next two weeks. I have never seen so many close races, close races in all fields. In a close race, we want momentum on our side. So let's move...
There is a gamble in Nixon's decision to commit himself so heavily, but it seems a shrewd one. If the Republicans sustain serious setbacks, he will suffer a blow to his prestige. However, losses in a mid-term election are likely to be soon forgotten or explained away, while any gain in strength will be a boost for Nixon, allowing the President to claim that he has won a national referendum on his policies...
...first semester of this year will be the toughest here for most of you. After mid-term exams, one in ten of you will receive an "unsatisfactory" grade report...