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Throwing aside any remaining reticence about proclaiming his own accomplishments, Ford declared: "From August of 1974 to August of 1976, the record shows steady upward progress toward prosperity, peace and public trust. It is a record I am proud to run on." Where an underdog Harry Truman ran in 1948 against a "do-nothing Congress," Ford will take on "the vote-hungry, free-spending congressional majority [of Democrats]." The speech was essentially, though mutedly, conservative, an evocation of Eisenhower themes. "I see Americans who love their country for what it has been and what it must become. I see Americans...
Carter ran through the Democratic pantheon-F.D.R., Harry Truman, John Kennedy-and, in the new spirit of unity, restored Lyndon Johnson to the roll, calling him "a great-hearted Texan, who took office in a tragic hour and who went on to do more than any other President in this century to advance the cause of human rights." Responding, delegates applauded the memory of L.B.J., whose role in a tragic war was never mentioned...
...Rowe, a New Deal White House aide and party workhorse for Truman, Stevenson, Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey, got a floor pass and wandered out among the delegates while Hubert gave his short speech. "It's his last hurrah," thought Rowe to himself as he watched his friend on the podium and surveyed the unfamiliar faces around him. Then, he had another thought. "It is the last hurrah...
Clark Clifford, who helped engineer the great Truman victory of 1948, stayed home in Washington. From his quiet office overlooking the White House, he described the Carter phenomenon as "the second political miracle of this century" (Truman's triumph over Dewey being the first). But not a miracle of chance, Clifford insisted, a miracle of planning and perspicacity. The politics of want-learned during the New Deal and Fair Deal, turned into the New Frontier and Great Society -was no longer pertinent. "New generation coming," said Clifford...
...What do Truman Capote, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Barbara Hutton have in common? Answer: things have been working out fine for them. Sort of. Writer Capote, now finishing his high-society novel Answered Prayers, didn't have a prayer in a Southampton, L.I., court last week, when he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge. He was fined $165 and ordered to enroll in a state-run driver-rehabilitation program. Nobel Prizewinning Author Solzhenitsyn and Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over...