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Washington Political Columnist David Broder believes that "we are a nation between clarifying ideas." The endlessly westward-expanding land became a model for the ever booming industrial and technological republic. Now America must formulate a new philosophy that acknowledges the reality, even the desirability, of limitations, of more intelligent, creative, careful use of its endowment. Many believe that a new generation of leaders is now working at the next "clarifying idea." Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer: "Conditions are building that will revitalize leadership. People are not willing to live endlessly with ambiguity. There is something within...
When journalists try to catch Kennedy off base on specific issues, notes Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves, he "can be creatively incoherent." Elaborates David Broder, the Washington Post's national political columnist...
...Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes put together. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s yin/yang books--1000 Days and The Imperial Presidency--described the consolidation of power in the Executive Office these last 40 years with much more historical veracity than Halberstam summons up. And, years before The Powers That Be, David Broder (The Party's Over) bemoaned the decay of the party structure, as television eliminated many functions of precinct workers, as civil service and federal aid programs cut out patronage as a source of party strength, and as pollsters, instead of party hacks, became Delphic Oracles on what the public...
...Broder's Law. Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.−Political Columnist David Broder...
...lawyer; they and their two children live in Washington's Cleveland Park section. Those who know him almost invariably describe Graham as decent, pleasant and entirely unassuming. "He's just as good to the people who clean the bathrooms as he is to [Columnist] David Broder," says Post Police Reporter Alfred Lewis. One doubt that colleagues whimsically cite about young Graham's business acumen: he has been known to loan reporters money. His deeper footprints around the paper are harder to find. He was a competent if unspectacular sports editor; as general manager he pressed for minority...