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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There can be no certain advance test of how a man will conduct the presidency. But educated prophecy is possible on the basis of the candidates' personalities and policies, and indeed even on the basis of their performances on the current campaign trail...
Actually, the voter's dilemma tends to be exaggerated by the current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing...
...being applied to bureaucratic procedures that had not changed by more than a jot in a century. Still in dire need of money, the city's budget has been brought in line with income. Thanks to Wagner's custom of floating long-term loans to pay current operating expenses, New York had "rainy...
...moving the third and fourth year students to hospitals, Goldhaber expects to free laboratory and classroom space for an increase in enrollment. The class of '75 will be about 24 students, 50% larger than the current size...
...current (November) issue of Harper's Mailer deals with himself and with politics brilliantly in a 90 page piece on the conventions, Miami Beach and Chicago, which could serve as a model for journalists who are wondering where to go now that the protection of objectivity has been stripped away...