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...ARAM BAKSHIAN, JR. is proud of the fact that the guy who tends bar at the National Press Club--the capitol's branch of Alcoholics Anonymous--knows what he drinks. For Bakshian, it's been a long trip up from copy boy at U.S. News and World Report to "White House insider." He lumbers across the lounge--grey herringbone, white shirt with maroon navy pencil-thin tie, grey flannels--a figure that any Young Republican could look up to. As he talks--fast, clipped tones that emerge from somewhere under his Groucho Marx mustache--Bakshian switches back and forth from...
...could have been said very easily in a short, snappy article for Politics Today. Instead, Bakshian spends 250 pages telling us about the race, the candidates, and, most of all, himself. The problem, in short, is the book demands the "armed neutrality" that Bakshian said he started with, and Aram Bakshian is a screaming Republican. His resume reads like What's What in GOP boners in the last ten years. From 1971 to 1972, special assistant to then chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bob Dole. In June of 1972, he joined the White House, four days before the Watergate...
This election year is already depressing enough without books like this. But we can all be thankful at least for one thing: Aram Bakshian, Jr. isn't running for president...
Diderot's Rhetoric of the Living Machine--Prof. Aram Vartanian, New York University; Boylston Library...
Beacon Brass Quintet--Music of Palestrina, Aram, Joplin, Dahland and others. At Walpole State Prison Walpole. Free. Call 353-3345 for details...