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...this special issue, we try to assess the state of the union, describe Ford's entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems...
...South the new reading shows 59% of the people in support of the committee. That performance inevitably influenced how Americans feel about the verdict the committee reached. One Harris measure was that people who voted for Nixon in the last election now favor impeachment by 49% to 43%. To assess the committee's impact directly on the most sensitive terrain, TIME correspondents visited the districts of some of the Judiciary Committee's swing-vote Congressmen-six Republicans and a Democrat who voted for impeachment and represent strongly pro-Nixon constituencies. The findings, and how they affect the political...
...that alone the book is worthwhile. And, while one can criticize Vogelgesang for not offering more insight into the very questions she raises, her effort to do so probably would have failed where her portrayal of the "long dark night" does not: The perspective and insight necessary to realistically assess the long term effect of the Intellectual Left's view of morality and its clash with the "alleged moralism" of the American government and public will only come when the events which the decade of Vietnam and dissent spawned have played themselves...
...handicap on a given case. Despite the predictions of experts, despite the hints expressed in last week's hearing, no one could be completely certain how any of the eight Justices would fall. Yet each Justice has a record that law professors and others continually consult in trying to assess how he may rule in a specific case. TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, a lawyer himself, has surveyed such experts and offered this shorthand guide to the eight Justices as they forge their portentous decision...
Seidel, who specializes in medieval art, will "assess the intellectual and physical needs of the collections--these haven't been examined for a long time," Daniel J. Robbins, director of the Fogg Art Museum, said last night. He listed as subjects of her research: "what is there, the state of scholarship on it, and possible publication of material accumulated there...