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...Warned the President in his State of the Union message: "The urgency of the anti-inflation fight requires that we defer such tax reduction at this time." Thus the Administration's guns-plus-butter spending program is being paid for by still heavier tax loads. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "That's the Carter strategy: to balance the bud get by tax up-creep." The President's skillfully crafted election year strategy of higher federal spending combined with steep taxes, however, could still be upset by howling taxpayers on the verge of revolt...
...Kennedy's staff has taken to calling him a "pragmatist," which is supposed to convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That definition, too, can be read in more than one way. Says an old Kennedy friend, conservative Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "Ted is the son of Joe Kennedy and the brother of Jack and Bobby. Like them, he accommodates himself to the prevailing views...
...changes are not the kind that would satisfy James David Barber, the Duke University political scientist who thinks that network news is "too intellectual, too balanced. It passes right over the heads of the great 'lower' half of the American electorate who need it most." In the September Washington Monthly, he argues that the Cronkites and Chancellors should stop modeling themselves on the New York Times, stop "gearing the medium to the needs and knowledge of the better informed" and should go after "the great unwashed." Barber is disturbed by those statistics showing that more people get their...
...Barber wants the network anchor man's words made simpler, the brief snippets of news filled out with more background. Well, may be. As Sol Hurok used to say, if people don't want to come, nothing will stop them. Mark R. Levy, a New York sociologist, made a two-year study of why people watch the news and concluded that "being informed is only a secondary motive for most viewers. Most people watch TV news to be amused and diverted, or to make sure that their homes and families are safe and secure...
...returning to reality," claims the American Enterprize Institute's Ben Wattenberg. "Reality has a way of hitting us on the head every now and then." James David Barber, Duke's chief political scientist, finds a growing yearning for unity that could manifest itself in these months, setting in motion political currents that would be almost impossible to change...