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Washington is eagerly?and anxiously?waiting for the arrival of Jimmy Carter. "This is going to be the most interesting presidency I have ever witnessed," says Clark Clifford, 70, the Washington lawyer who has been a confidant of Presidents since Harry Truman's day. Clifford claims to see the definite possibility of greatness in Carter because he is unquestionably brainy, determined and dedicated. Another Washington figure professes he is not dismayed by the Georgian's uncertain transition. "I will give President Carter the benefit of every doubt until we see the performance," says President Gerald Ford...
America found within itself extraordinary capacities of vision and creativity. Leaders of both parties and many backgrounds−Truman and Eisenhower, Vandenberg and Marshall, Acheson and Dulles−built a national consensus for responsible American world leadership based on both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
...they compromised with "a barnyard epithet." You used to get a feeling that Tom Wolfe at his best gave you stuff like that, but no more. He has become too concerned with masks and manners to go about trapping flies. In fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances and in his own right-wing nativist assessment of American life. Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine leaves you with the feeling that if you were to suddenly say, "oh bullshit," and slam the book shut under Wolfe's nose, he would...
...Jimmy whose name was on the ballot in all 50 states on Nov. 2, even though he had to sue the state of Maine to keep it that way. Jimmy it will remain-and that use of the diminutive will mark a historic first. Harry was Truman's given name, not a nickname; "Woody" would have been unthinkable for the austere Wilson; and even such informal types as Andy Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt and Jerry Ford reverted to their given names when signing bills or greeting foreign dignitaries...
...political structure erected in Greece following the 1946-49 Civil War, under the direct supervision of the U.S. government through the Truman doctrine, could not tolerate such open, massive dissent. Its essence was precisely to establish a democratic facade for reasons of public relations and to make sure at the same time that the genuine will of the people would never be implemented...