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...used to channel the flow of incoming opinions. But the practice will proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression let the press know what the public is thinking." Since what the public thinks is news, the press can hardly lose...
...York's Congressman Barber Conable, who has been part of the Republican leadership for four years, got his first invitation to the Oval Office...
Perhaps Nixon did so because he saw the world as a fundamentally hostile place and life as an almost uninterrupted series of crises. In the words of James David Barber, chairman of Duke University's political science department and author of The Presidential Character: "Nixon lives in a fighting world; his writing and speaking are full of the imagery of combat. He sees himself as forever engaged in battles, hit by 'terrible attacks,' in virtual hand-to-hand combat...
...Barber's view, Nixon's greatest fear was "public exposure of personal inadequacy." While he often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...
Psychohistory, in fact, is nothing new. Numerous widely respected behavioral analyses have been done on world figures, notably Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's profiles of Martin Luther and Gandhi, and Duke Political Scientist James David Barber's The Presidential Character, which contends that "active-negative" Presidents like Nixon face crises by "riding the tiger to the end." M.I.T. History Professor Bruce Mazlish adds in his 1972 psychohistory, In Search of Nixon, that because two of the President's brothers died in their youth, he continually struggles with "death fears"; to confront these, he may subconsciously seek out crises...