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...idea has something of the same appeal as Author Norman Mailer's proposal, when he was running for New York City mayor in 1969, that the city secede from New York State altogether, and become the 51st state. Such suggestions conjure up an entirely new federal arrangement. Whether more autonomy or less would most benefit the cities is hard to gauge, but it might be interesting for the U.S. to consider stitching two dozen new stars on its flag and welcoming its city-states into the union...
...Certain Kind. Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole. Theodore White, the chronicler of presidential campaigns, has bemoaned what he calls "the Opinionated Mafia," located within "a one-mile radius of [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, who control 95% of opinion and influence making in the U.S.A. These people drink together, talk together, read the same esoteric and mad reviews." The Wall Street Journal picked up the theme last October, editorializing that "the Establishment-liberal media have been terribly faddish in their attitude toward Nixon." And of course the most vociferous...
...Senators, and everyone who had any business being there knew who they were. Nevada's Alan Bible, a Democrat, was the first of the seven to be called. He said "No," and the audience gasped. Other nays followed, and then Quentin Burdick, Democrat of North Dakota, cast the 51st negative vote. "That's it!" someone yelled. Agnew slumped in his big leather chair. Haynsworth had been beaten, and by a surprisingly decisive 55-to-45 margin. It was a bitter defeat for Richard Nixon, who had chosen to lay the prestige of his presidency on the line...
Masterly Performance. While Agnew and Nixon's Cabinet circuit riders were spreading a tough evangelical line from a multitude of pulpits, Nixon himself -contented with public response to his Viet Nam speech and buoyed by pro-Administration demonstrations-stuck with gentler preaching to the converted. On the 51st anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I, Nixon visited patients at a Washington veterans' hospital. Then, on the eve of M-day II, he invited Senators and Representatives from both parties to the White House to thank them for Capitol Hill support. A House resolution introduced by Democrat...
...partially to unfavorable reviews of his book, The Making of a President, 1968, White attacked the "increasing concentration of the cultural pattern of the U.S. in fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks. "Let's say we can rear back and pass a miracle bill. We would...