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...hypersensitive to what he considers unfair criticism. His concern about distortions of his policy are compounded by the problem that his old diplomatic magic has not been working too well of late. The U.S. seems, for example, to have lost some of its prestige as the primary peace broker in the Middle East...
...Wallace did not run on a major party ticket, did not expect to win, and concentrated on arousing latent racism among the disaffected. In 1972, before he was injured, Wallace was campaigning for the Democratic nomination and appeared to stand a good chance of emerging as a major power broker at the Democratic National Convention. This situation demanded a new political strategy, one which would appeal to a broader segment of the electorate, one which might be termed covertly racist. As a paralyzed Wallace, employing this latter approach faded quickly in the early primaries of this new presidential season, Jimmy...
...important than the separate preferential vote, commonly called the beauty contest. But the Democratic competition for 155 delegates stands to be inconclusive. Reason: nowhere on the ballot is the name of the most important Democrat in the election-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. His Honor, aiming to be a major broker at the convention, has filed slates of candidates committed to a favorite son, Senator Adlai Stevenson III. The Senator is not actively stumping, but so magic is his name in Illinois-and so great is Daley's clout-that Stevenson should pick up at least 90 delegates, whom...
...probably harmful" to him in New Hampshire, and before the primary, most Administration spokesmen seemed to feel that Nixon's purpose was less to resurrect himself than to crucify Ford. Some even speculated that Nixon wanted to harm Ford in New Hampshire so that the ex-President could broker a deadlocked Republican convention this summer and tip the nomination to Texan John Connally, the lapsed Democrat. Whether that was true or not, it was clear that, whatever his ulterior motives, Nixon had allowed himself to be manipulated by Peking for the purposes of Chinese, and not U.S., foreign policy...
...journalistic overkill, the press itself was often dogged by three sets of political scientists and dozens of students with notebooks, cameras and tape recorders, all bent on examining-as one consortium of professors from Yale, M.I.T. and Duke has it-whether "the media is the new political power broker...