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...still with the hill folks. He won his first term in office crusading against the construction of a capitol building in the city -- a new home for the despised politicians. The antipolitics of our own time is just rediscovering the ploys of Davis, who treated Little Rock as the Beltway of his time: "The judges have lived too long at Little Rock, which is why they ruled against the people...
There's no justice here, Justice has a department of its own," barks Senator Hamfat Hum's aide as he turns away grant applicants. But this surreal political allegory's message seems to be that justice only exists outside the Beltway, although it requires government funding...
...Ronald Reagan. But the sentiments that fuel the surge for Perot ("Take our country back") are perhaps best understood as a 20th century manifestation of Jacksonian Democracy, the anti-Establishment revolt that captured the country's imagination in the 1820s, the very first voter rejection of the Washington Beltway...
...most prominent Harvard professor who moved to the beltway during Kennedy's reign was McGeorge Bundy, who stepped down as dean of the Faculty of arts and Sciences to become national security adviser...
...other Beltway insiders say Gomes willprobably be unaffected...