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Steel intersperses narrative with Lippmann's articles and opinions through the onset of the Depression and Roosevelt's rise. Sometimes the journalist remained on the sidelines and patiently observed. But, more often--as in the late '20s when Lippmann and Ambassador Dwight Morrow mediated a dispute between American oil companies, the Catholic Church and a hostile Mexican government--Steel finds the journalist in the thick of the action...
...West Point fancies itself a timeless institution and, as graduate Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked on his return to the campus, "Some things never change." On Saturdays, two regiments parade in full dress on the great expanse of the Plain. At morning inspection, a cadet's "tac" (tactical officer) can slap three demerits on him for "messy drawers." Cadets must arrange their books on their shelves in order, from tallest to shortest. Physical education is a graded course and each year a cadet is required to run the obstacle course. They call it the O.C. in public, "the suck" in private...
...time the survey was deepened to poll more thoroughly in the nation's key industrial states (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York). The aim was to detect any notable shifts in the blue-collar vote. Large-scale defections from the Democratic Party helped both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon win the presidency and today seem vital to Reagan's prospects. So far, no real switch has been found. Carter leads by 10 percentage points among blue-collar workers, setting these states up as some of the key battlegrounds between now and November...
Editors must keep this faith even though few will appreciate their efforts. As Critic Dwight Macdonald wrote nearly 20 years ago: "If nine-tenths of the citizens of the United States, including a recent President, were to use inviduous, the one-tenth who clung to invidious would still be right, and they would be doing a favor to the majority if they continued to maintain the point." -ByR.Z. Sheppard. Reported by John M. Scott and Janice C Simpson/New York
...long, O how long, America!" cried Clement, in a grandiloquent filch from Cicero's First Catiline Oration. "How long, O America, shall these things endure?" In Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy, Clement declaimed, "Foster [Dulles] fiddles, frets, fritters and flits." Richard Nixon was "the vice-hatchet man slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down the green fairways of indifference." To farmers, the gusty Tennessean pleaded: "Come on home . . . Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...