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...narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a Victorian novelist would have come up with a livelier title -- is nonetheless set in modern times, specifically the fast-track London art world of the '60s and '70s. It covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage to lose track of their little girl for a 14-year span -- and still retain the reader's sympathy. Perhaps because the author is a longtime feminist, Helen, who finally conquers her passive instincts and makes...
Jackson dodged one impolite question about his prior relationship with Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan, an intemperate and anti-Semitic hatemonger. But otherwise those at the Clifford coffee klatch put on their best company behavior; they even dutifully laughed when Jackson snidely dismissed offers of help from aides to fallen presidential rivals with the line "Sometimes you can make energy from trash." As one breakfast clubber said in summing up the faction's reaction to Jackson, "Liberals like to be abused like this once in a while. It's an easy way of showing how tolerant...
...Clifford Truesdale, the head of the Democratic City Committee, said he did not think the arrests would hurt Saundra Graham politically...
...Smart ones understand," says the venerable Clark Clifford, 80, who has seen as much of the power game as anyone. Harry Truman, for whom Clifford worked in the White House, at first fought the forces around him; he severely embarrassed himself and the country before he understood he wasn't the only authority on the avenue. Clifford thinks that insofar as Reagan is concerned, it is too late. "President Reagan has become almost irrelevant. Powerful forces are moving ahead without him. In the economic field, he will be unable to recover. Our main goal now is to try to prevent...
Lyndon Johnson knew how to compromise better than anyone. Clifford, L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense, remembers March 31, 1968, when Johnson tried to cut his last and biggest deal with Washington. He went on the air to "speak to you of peace" not war. It was the end of escalation in Viet Nam. Washington, with its peace marchers, Senate harangues, angry poets, editorial cartoons and leaky colonels, had stopped him. He left for the ranch because he knew enough to know he had to yield...