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...historian Alan Brinkley has a thought: Maybe they should be held to a lower standard than the rest...
...Brinkley reasons thus: The kind of man willing to do the things required to get himself elected president is, of necessity, a nastier and less moral specimen than the average citizen. Perhaps we should cut him an extra yard or two of slack...
...23rd Street in Manhattan. At the time, in those Pleistocene cable days, some genius had the idea of building a real-time TV news service that would allow Time Inc.'s cable subscribers to have direct access to the headlines, as opposed to having to wait for Huntley and Brinkley or Walter Cronkite or even, God forbid, the morning paper. To do this, Time Inc.'s wizards came up with a solution that would have done a kindergartner proud: first they purchased an AP teletype machine (the kind with the clattering printer and bells). Then they jacked it into...
...Brinkley wrote in Talk magazine that Gore was pressured into serving because his father's re-election bid might be jeopardized by a son who didn't enlist...
Gore, wrote Brinkley, was submerged in the shadow of a domineering and powerful father...