Word: deweyitis
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...have laughed five years ago. It would have been like going to a funeral and laughing." For a long time, Clark could not joke about Viet Nam. As a second lieutenant in the infantry, he "found war" in 1971, during the 72-day incursion into Laos known as Dewey Canyon II. Of the 35 men who set out with him in his platoon, only eleven returned. Clark later went through the familiar agony of nightmares and flashbacks. "There were times when I was hell to live with," he recalls. "In 1975, when they had all those TV specials on Viet...
...routine news practices as regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings between the press and the President and the admission of newsreel and television cameras to presidential press conferences; of a heart attack; in Bronxville, N.Y. A former political reporter and press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Hagerty joined ABC after leaving the White House, serving as a vice president until a stroke in 1975 forced him to retire...
...first seven innings the game was a soporific pitchers's duel, seasoned with solo home runs by Red Sox right fielder Dewey Evans in the fifth and Allenson in the seventh, and two Red Sox errors that would be appropriate for Little League competition...
With such responsibilities thrust on them, the pollsters have a lot to answer for, and they know it. Their problems with the Carter-Reagan race have touched off the most skeptical examination of public opinion polling since 1948, when the surveyers made Thomas Dewey a sure winner over Harry Truman. In response, the experts have been explaining, qualifying, clarifying-and rationalizing. Simultaneously, they are privately embroiled in as much backbiting, mudslinging and mutual criticism as the tight-knit little profession has ever known. The public and private pollsters are criticizing their competition's judgment, methodology, reliability and even honesty...
...Election Day, Reagan voted in the morning and refused to make any predictions. "President Dewey told me to just play it cool," he said. At 12:15 p.m., Wirthlin called with good news about the early returns. Reagan's response was to cross the fingers of one hand above his head and rap on wood with the other hand. At 5:35 p.m., he was stepping out of the shower, wrapped in a towel, when the phone rang; Jimmy Carter was calling to congratulate...