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Something of the same error of premature judgment occurred with Franklin Roosevelt. As he took office in 1933, F.D.R. hardly seemed a savior to anyone. Edmund Wilson wrote at the time that Roosevelt was a decent man, but "was there anything durable...
...press, looking for new gauges of political credibility, gave McGovern a publicity boost when he finished third in Iowa (behind Edmund Muskie and "uncommitted"). Muskie won in New Hampshire as well, but McGovern, trailing by only 9 percentage points, again triumphed in the expectations game. He rode that wave to the nomination -- and then to a resounding defeat as traditional Democratic voters, appalled that ultra-liberals had taken over the party, defected to Richard Nixon...
...former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range of prominent liberals (Edmund Muskie) as well as conservatives (William Simon): "We recognize that the bold political action now needed is impossible unless the people allow it -- indeed, unless they demand...
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has joined with Edmund Muskie, Elliot Richardson, Harvard President Derek Bok and others to form a National Commission on the Public Service. The commission's hope is to develop leadership for the public sector. A member of the group is John Brademas, a Congressman for 22 years and now president of New York University. Says Brademas: "Leadership can be summed up in two words -- intelligence and integrity, or to use two synonyms, competence and character. We don't see those characteristics in Government today. Reagan and his Administration have established...
...album's first video, a stinging 16-minute dramatic vamp on the title tune directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered in prime time on CBS last week and grabbed a 30 share. Set in a New York City subway station, it was in part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy whose violent death revealed a troubled double existence. Folks who found the Bad video too tough may be soothed by next year's Smooth Criminal. This multimillion-dollar minifilm has slam-bang special effects supervised by Colin Chilvers, who worked...