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This small breach in Jackie's protective façade may be a signal of things to come. In a few weeks it will be ten years since Bobby Kennedy's death. In a few months it will be 15 years since Dallas Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has written a large book on Bobby, having been given the right to mine Bobby's archives by himself. After the book emerges in June, the tapes and papers will be opened to other scholars. This will signal another major step into the era of the recorded recollections...
...Garth revels in his labors and savors his influence both during and after campaigns, just as he enjoys his own façade as the rat-tat-tat tough guy, breaking off aphorisms between puffs on his twisted black cigar. (Typical mot: "Reality dictates your strategy. There are no brilliant choices in most situations.") At 47, he conveys an impression of boundless energy in search of new elections, new impact. Indeed, what distinguishes Garth from other political consultants is his influence on some clients after they have won and his immersion in their campaigns. He plots the candidates' advertising...
...Billy's heehaw, one senses a touch of Martha Mitchellism; it is sometimes hard to imagine his adventures ending well. One problem is that Billy's cracker vaudeville is based upon a certain amount of sneering contempt. Under the good ole boy façade lies an unpleasant pool of anger. W.C. Fields was a professional at that kind of thing; it was his trade. The President's brother may discover that the Billy phenomenon can backfire. In any case, there is an unsettling symmetry about these two Carters: a President who forever asks the "decent, honorable...
Even with belated U.N. attention, the reported measures taken and proposed are but a façade of token gestures. They ignore the basic driving force of population pressure' and the dissipative effects of ever-fragmenting "sovereignty...
...Sydney could see no way past it. The polished assurance of Noland's style, its clear-cut shifts of format and structure succeeding one another like the terms of a syllogism, combined with the haughty, messianic tone of its supporting criticism to present a most intimidating façade. Who, under that shadow, could call a stripe a stripe...