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...have hurt him. Still, he narrowly lost to McGovern in California; had he won, it might have turned things around. In a way, the most lugubrious legacy being brought to Miami Beach is that of Edmund Muskie, who seemed to have the nomination locked up before the race ever began-and simply dissolved into near invisibility in the mists of the center where he stationed himself. He was running against Nixon, he believed, and was brought down from behind by the men running against...
...react. Lebanese air-force jets were based only 40 miles away, but none scrambled to challenge the Israeli choppers. Some Lebanese soldiers did advance toward the Israeli roadblock, but retreated when the commandos fired warning shots. A mobile Lebanese antiaircraft battery finally trundled up an hour after the attack began-and 15 minutes after the Israelis departed...
...Dealer Lyndon Johnson, the signing of the social security bill last week offered a threefold blessing: a chance to memorialize F.D.R., an occasion to tell 24 million present beneficiaries that, beginning in March, they would get the biggest increases in payments enacted since social security began-and the knowledge that most voters would not feel the additional cost until after Election...
...ludicrous sight of a disappointed politician trying to talk himself into a position of prominence only made material for cartoonists' gibes. Everyone was quick to recall how France had continued to supply arms to Israel right up to the moment that fighting began-and perhaps well after. And even as President De Gaulle decried world tensions, his high-pressure salesmen were doing their best to contribute to another arms buildup-this one in Latin America of all places-by trying to sell their newest antitank missiles and supersonic jets to Peru...
...Potsdam agreements encouraged Soviet imperialism. He blames Truman for an unconscionably rapid postwar demobilization, for a bankrupt China policy, and for all the domestic sins that critics have laid at Truman's door: government by crony, incompetence and corruption in Government, and "the disease of McCarthyism, which began-and got out of hand -while he was in the White House...