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...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...
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...Kennedy quotes the passage of Tennyson that his brothers admired, and Eugene McCarthy likes to write verse, often of the pointlessly enigmatic kind ("I am alone/ In the land of the aardvarks . . ."). John Kennedy had Robert Frost read at his Inauguration, and Jimmy Carter asked similar service of James Dickey. But, on the whole, Americans have preferred Plato's approach: he banned poets from his Republic...
...candidate for poet laureate run on every presidential ticket? The poet would be granted a guarantee of immunity, like Lear's Fool, to criticize Government policy as he wishes. The plan might open up an interesting game: select the poet who goes with the President. Thus James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter; Rod McKuen might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower...
...abruptly abandoned the Administration's proposal for a $50 income tax rebate to stimulate the economy. The President broke a public promise, charged Muskie, and disappointed people who expected to get the money. The Senator exploded again when Carter announced a hit list of water projects, including the Dickey-Lincoln dam in Maine that Muskie wanted. The President later prudently withdrew the Maine project from his list...