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...that the Waterbury, Conn., rally at the end of John Kennedy's 1960 campaign is a legend in itself? Political Writer David Broder recalled it again a few days ago. Kennedy was five hours late, not arriving until 2:30 a.m. Thousands waited in the autumn night, overjoyed that at last the slender young candidate had appeared. The American promise stood in front of them. They did not want to go to bed, to break the magic moment...
...decline of the parties is part of the atomizing process of American culture. "The individualistic instincts in this society," writes Washington Post Columnist David Broder, "have now become much more powerful in our politics than the majoritarian impulse. It is easier and more appealing for all of us leaders as well as followers-to separate ourselves from the mass than to seek out the alliances that can make us part of a majority." Voters seem to have lost the psychological need to feel themselves part of a large political cause; the Viet Nam War, Watergate and other scandals have left...
Most overrated: James Reston. Most respected: David Broder. Least respected: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Most pretentious: Joseph Kraft. Most thoughtful: Richard Strout and John Osborne of the New Republic. Most predictable: Patrick Buchanan and Tom Wicker...
...policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things for himself. Kraft talks to everybody and is well informed, but his judgments are made on the wing and are frequently undeserving of such certitude. David Broder, the "most respected" of reporters, confines himself to the U.S. political scene he knows so well and mines so thoroughly...
Nowadays, in many major newspapers, a Washington columnist can't even count on appearing regularly. Michael Gartner, editor of the Des Moines Register, subscribes to "a passel of them" and pays but $25 a week for Kraft, $20 apiece for Broder, George F. Will and Mary McGrory. He does not always run the columns he receives and often prints only three or four of their "most important paragraphs...