Word: anderson
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Brown's coach John Anderson says he's scared about playing Harvard today, an after-effect of the devastating thrashing the Crimson gave to a favored Brown contingent last year...
...since the Democratic convention in mid-July Fallows has served under chief speechwriter and novelist Patrick Anderson, who says he cannot think of anyone who has joined the staff since the New York nomination "who has gotten to have more access to the governor than Jim has." Fallows and Anderson travel with Carter in his plane, Peanut One. They work on speeches in their shared hotel room and on the typewriters at the back of the plane during flights and campaign stops. Fallows also attends Carter's major issues speeches and appearances at rallies. At these "Roman gladiator type events...
While he longs for journalistic freedom, Anderson has encouraged him to leave his options open. "It might be that a year or two there (in the White House) would help his writing rather than hurt it," Anderson said last week Anderson believes that Fallows has the proper mixture of abilities to serve as a speechwriter--a mixture that has steadily increased Carter's trust in the Harvard graduate. "We need people," Anderson says, "with talent, people who can stand the physical game and basic insanity of campaigning, and who can deal with the candidate." Fallows, he adds...
...less campaign bias of the press. "You hear complaints about an issue-less campaign, and then you try to get an issue past these reporters. It's like driving through the Notre Dame front line. You just can't do it." Fallows recalls the press reception of a speech Anderson wrote a few months earlier, "the most reasoned and eloquent discourse you'd want to find" about how liberalism and conservatism have changed in recent years. "The reporters were bored to tears by it. The only thing they were interested in was the attack on President Ford's vetoes...
...light of these events, I can only deplore Professor Anderson's recent letter: it is inaccurate and derogatory in its treatment of my relationship with the committee; indeed, it borders on the libelous. Professor Anderson would do well to reflect further on the fairness of his committee's procedures as well as on the accuracy of its findings. Casting himself in the role of Lord High Executioner may add a Gilbert and Sullivan savor to a "gargantuan report" but does little to alleviate the shocking delays that have plagued Dr. Hartman's appeal to date. Francois C.D. Vigier Professor...