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...Questions. Skinner is currently trying to RICO not only the accused Medicaid-fraud conspirators but a group of five nursing homes and two pharmacies also charged with Medicaid fraud, and Chicago's Tyler Barber College. The barber school scam particularly rouses Skinner. It, involves allegedly false Veterans Administration claims from dozens of otherwise "good citizens": fire men, policemen, Chicago transit workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy...
...real presidential task is not dashing from shopping center to shopping center making the same speech," says Barber, explaining why it is healthy to view campaign rhetoric with skepticism. In those shopping centers, Lyndon Johnson promised to keep the U.S. out of the Viet Nam War and Nixon spouted all the American ideals that he systematically violated. A close look at their lives showed both men almost programmed by birth and background to do what they...
...Nixon gone into some other kind of work," muses Barber, "he probably would have done just fine." But the singular pressures of the presidency magnified Nixon's flaws (like his self-doubt). In contrast, John Kennedy's shortcomings were often obscured, his strengths (combativeness, style) enhanced by the office...
Ernest Hemingway's definition of courage-"grace under pressure"-is as good a yardstick as any for Americans to use as Ford and Carter march through this campaign, says Barber. But it will be up to each person to devise his own definition of both grace and pressure. A campaign is but the tip of the mountain, the debates just a small part of that. Yet, says Barber, the character clues will be there for us to see, even in the debates, though those constitute a mere 4/^-hour capsule of more than half a century of living...
...Barber does not scoff at any detail. He believes everything about a man is revealing-the veins in his forehead, his eyelids, his hands, his body language. This week Barber is pondering how inspiring, articulate, wordy, clever, devious, plain-spoken and hesitant each man emerged. Most important to Barber is how the substance of what Ford and Carter said relates to their pasts. What Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter promise for America is apt to evolve in some proportion to how firmly these ideas are rooted in their lives...