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What key issue will swing this year's presidential election? Now that the economy appears to be easing up, Republican political consultant Tom Edmonds predicts that the focus will be on character. Let's go to the tabloids.
Remember Reagan's giant convention video? Edmonds bets on an equally elaborate homage to Barry Goldwater this year. Honoring the party paterfamilias could help strengthen Bush's shaky right flank -- but look out: the feisty Arizonan also tends to say what he thinks, regardless of the script.
Elizabeth McKinsey '70 then gave Edmonds her medal and citation, calling her "a renaissance woman of our times."
Edmonds, a former Bunting Institute scholar, has written about U.S. and European history.
Edmonds began her speech, "Come Down to KewGarden in Lilac Time; It Isn't Far from London,"with a poem about nineteenth century London. Shecompared the 1980s with the London of the poembecause this decade has seen a "twisting" ofvalues. The '80s have been years of excessivegreed, attacks on civil...