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...reach an influential post on the House Ways and Means Committee without compromising his liberal voting record. Shannon, only 32 years old and finishing only his third term representing the Fifth District north of Boston, has already mastered the art of getting things done. He is a liberal with clout, and should continue to be effective in stopping and reversing the arms race and pushing for meaningful negotiations with the Soviet Union. A non-interventionist whose rhetoric occasionally borders on the isolationist. Shannon will nonetheless provide a strong opposition to President Reagan's tendency toward military adventurism...
...reach an influential post on the House Ways and Means Committee without compromising his liberal voting record. Shannon, only 32 years old and finishing only his third term representing the Fifth District north of Boston, has already mastered the art of getting things done. He is a liberal with clout, and should continue to be effective in stopping and reversing the arms race and pushing for meaningful negotiations with the Soviet Union. A non-interventionist whose rhetoric occasionally borders on the isolationist, Shannon will nonetheless provide a strong opposition to President Reagan's tendency toward military adventurism...
...neutrality . . ." The letter enraged conservative Columnist William Safire. "That political proselytizing is surely so unethical as to be un-American," he wrote last week. Safire also fumed about the "Fundamentalist intolerance" he found at the Dallas convention, and declared that "no President . . .has done more to marshal the political clout of these evangelicals than Ronald Reagan-to his historic discredit." William F. Buckley Jr., however, in a column last week, defended the President. Wrote Buckley: "Reagan is certainly attempting to attract the vote of those who believe they are being unfairly persecuted by the secularists, and why shouldn...
...clout with the President springs from an uncanny ability to understand his man. His experience and intuition tell him with remarkable accuracy how Reagan will behave in any situation. When, at meetings, he spots Reagan's attention slumping or his impatience mounting, he quickly signals with a shake of his head for participants to quicken the discussion or drop it. Sometimes in a crisis he will rush the President a prepared statement only to discover that Reagan has already scribbled out sentences in almost the same words. At the root of the Deaver genius is the fact that...
That zigzag was quickly rationalized by the publication of a New York Times/CBS News poll indicating Jackson's clout with Black voters, even those who cast their ballots for him in primary elections, is considerably weaker than many observers had supposed. While Jackson attracted roughly three out of every four Black ballots cast in primaries, only 31% would vote for him in the presidential election, vs. 53% who favor Mondale. Even if Jackson should withhold an endorsement of Mondale, the poll indicated, a mere 4% of Jackson's Black supporters would cast their vote against the Democratic nominee...