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Even if that happens, however, the central question of genuine tax reform will remain. Critics say that reforms should result in fairness, efficiency and simplicity. But the traditional piecemeal approach seems to be, as Maine's Edmund Muskie noted during the Senate's debate, that "every good loophole deserves another." What may be emerging, nonetheless, is an encouraging feeling that the existing tax code simply cannot be revised to any significant extent -that the current system will have to be scrapped entirely and another one started from scratch...
...aides did not know. So the 5,500 reporters competing for scoops at the Madison Square Garden love-in were unable to find out in advance the identity of Jimmy Carter's running mate. Except for Gilbert Giles. By following up a tip from an associate of Edmund Muskie who was privy to the Maine Senator's pre-convention discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed the front-page headline. Explained Giles...
...invited vice-presidential prospects made their pilgrimages to Peanutville, U.S.A. In Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter held court. Edmund Muskie-elegant, imposing, a bit haughty but willing ("I suppose I have an appetite for almost anything in politics that is new and different"). Walter Mondale -witty, cool, eager, even though he had found that campaigning for the presidency meant he had to spend too much time in Holiday Inns ("I have checked, and they have been redecorated. That is where I would like to be"). John Glenn -a hero still, warm, attractive, a bit edgy (Aren't military...
...finalists personally this week in three or four more hours of intensive talks. "I want to be sure to be acquainted with them," he said in understatement. He could still spring a surprise, but the three other Senators not publicly ruled out of the running were Adlai Stevenson, Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson. The assets and drawbacks of all six included...
...House of Commons, the Whig opposition is led by Edmund Burke, 47, an Irishman who has become America's most eloquent defender, and Charles James Fox, 27, a witty, rakish aristocrat who is serious about only one thing, politics. In the House of Lords, the Whig leader is the Marquis of Rockingham, who is given credit for decency and honesty but is not an effective politician. In both houses, the opposition can count on about one-third of the vote. Its speakers have opposed the King's policy almost every day during the debates of the last session...