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...campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were a New Yorker, he'd vote for Buckley. And he wasn't kidding...
Johnson is well aware that he is in trouble. He has asked virtually all his close friends and associates to write memos telling him what has gone wrong. But there is some question whether they will really do so. All too frequently, candor-on-request has resulted in a speedy exit from Johnson's inner circle...
Ford can afford such candor, of course, since he has the solid support of a heavily Republican district that has sent him to the House in ten consecutive elections. Moreover, last week's soundings back home supported his own nerve-end feeling, and that of many other G.O.P. leaders, that the Republicans have a fighting chance of recapturing the White House next year-and of winning enough seats in the House to elevate Jerry Ford from minority leader to speaker...
...Girl Like Diahann. Moynihan does that with a vehemence and a candor that earn him enemies. Like the 19th century Irish immigrants, he says, "the harsh fact is that as a group, at the present time," America's Negroes "are not equal to most of those groups with which they will be competing." Eventually, the Irish closed that gap, and Moynihan has no doubt that the Negroes will too. But they need help...
From time to time candor fails even the most inventive reporter. The skeptical reader should know that the attribution of Richard Nixon's deepest thoughts to "the friends of Richard Nixon" is a cover for Nixon himself, insisted upon by Nixon...