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...until I get a response." He contended that the 6.7 million people who voted for him (vs. 9.7 million for Dukakis) had earned representation on the Democratic ticket. When asked why he was now pushing for a job he once spurned, Jackson proved yet again how eloquently he can cloak his own ambition in historic significance. "For some people who have come by way of the stars and have had silver spoons in their mouths and many job options -- Shall they run their father's ranch, shall they run his plantation, shall they run the family corporation? . . . maybe Vice President...
That may make short-term political sense, but the cloak of immunity that currently protects Jackson and Robertson does little to elevate the political debate...
...controversy over Casey's deathbed interview was just one of several that swirled last week around Woodward's book. In chronicling Casey's six-year tenure as the nation's chief intelligence officer, which ended with his resignation and death earlier this year, Woodward provides new details about a cloak of covert CIA operations. Among the most startling: Casey had arranged with Saudi Arabia to assassinate Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, leader of the militant Lebanese Shi'ite faction known as Hizballah. The 1985 car bombing, supposedly financed by the Saudis, killed 80 people in a Beirut suburb but left Fadlallah...
While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...
...affair has diverted the Administration from fashioning effective new policies, wasting the dwindling time that the President has left. It has emboldened Democratic presidential candidates to attack Reagan personally as an ineffective leader. Republican contenders, too, have been trying to distance themselves from Reagan now that his cloak of invincibility has slipped...