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...medical fragility (if that's what it is) raises semiurgent questions about illness and power. When young John Kennedy was elected in 1960, he had already been given the sacrament of Extreme Unction several times. He had suffered for years from life-threatening Addison's disease. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower, whose presidency was much afflicted by heart trouble and ileitis. Lyndon Johnson, following J.F.K., had a history of heart attacks and a Rabelaisian appetite for all sorts of things that were not good for his coronary arteries, including quantities of Scotch. He abdicated the presidency in 1968, went home...
...notion that people could be cloned smacks of social engineering of a catastrophic dimension, the results of which can only further erode humanity. DWIGHT MESSNER Louisville...
...Ultimately, not much needs to be done to make these timeless tunes come to life, and since all of the contributors do solid work, what ends up standing out is a function of the song at hand - there's no faulting Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam, but their selections are less memorable than "Blue Night" (Mary Chapin Carpenter), "On the Old Kentucky Shore" (Joan Osborne & Ricky Skaggs) and especially Dolly Parton's rendering of "Cry, Cry Darlin'," a standout by any standard...
...close race for president. If Bush means what he says about inclusion and compassion, and governs as if the black vote is already a major component of his base, he might get 20 to 25 percent of the black vote in 2004, a figure higher than any Republican since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, and possibly enough to secure his reelection...
DIED. WILLIAM P. ROGERS, 87, Attorney General for Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State for Richard Nixon; in Bethesda, Md. Nixon kept his longtime friend in the dark about such initiatives as contact with Ho Chi Minh and relations with China, preferring to rely on Henry Kissinger. Nixon later admitted, "The way I treated Rogers was terrible...