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...Administration of Jimmy Carter and, he always added, of Walter Mondale, had stood for weakness and inefFectuality, for letting foreigners like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of manhood ran deeply through the campaign. The U.S. had lost the long war in Viet Nam; the nation seemed smaller and diminished in the world: unmanned. Reagan restored a sense of what was good, what was virtuous, about being a man. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that an astonishing 78% of American men view Reagan as a strong leader...
...drool factor." His mind wandered, some said, and he got the facts wrong. In splendidly backhanded defense, Reagan supporters said it was not age: Reagan has always been sloppy with the facts. During the mid-'60s, Americans sometimes supported Lyndon Johnson's actions in Viet Nam by saying, "Well, the President has more information than we do, and so can more readily make these decisions." The implicit line of some of the Reagan defenders was the reverse: that the President has a mind unencumbered by facts-the sort of details, they mean, that used to bog Jimmy Carter...
Perhaps the dispute over the war's monument at least will be put to rest. When Designer Maya Ying Lin's Viet Nam Memorial was unveiled in 1982, few denied the power of the low, somber black granite wall, now engraved with the names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third...
...Soviet involvement in Afghanistan and the massive troop buildup along the Chinese border. The Soviets, for their part, have been irked by the apparent warmth in U.S.-Chinese relations following the Reagan visit to Peking last spring, and accuse the Chinese of trying to pick a fight with Viet Nam. In June the Chinese foreign-language weekly Beijing Review went so far as to say that it was "unreal and impossible for Sino-Soviet relations to return to where they once were in history...
Undeterred, the new editor hired young, iconoclastic writers whom he called "my city-room Weathermen," hailed the counterculture and turned the paper vehemently against the Viet Nam War. The Globe won its first Pulitzer Prize the year after he took over, for probing the credentials of a federal-judgeship nominee who was a Kennedy family retainer; it has since won ten more, the majority for reports on such issues as race relations and arms control. During Winship's tenure, circulation jumped about 40%, to 520,000 daily and 793,000 (eighth in the U.S.) on Sunday. Last week this...