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...course, ever since Adams and Jefferson, there has been a tradition of father-son rivalry in the White House. Eisenhower helpfully told reporters he couldn't think of a single idea Nixon contributed during their eight-year tenure together. Hubert Humphrey died politically in Lyndon Johnson's war. When George Bush promised a "kinder, gentler nation" in 1988, he meant kinder and gentler than Ronald Reagan...
Tyler was just seven months old and beginning to sit up on his own, playing peek-a-boo with a washcloth. Amy found him face down in his crib on Father's Day. That morning, instead of rousing their son, as he often did, Ron had jumped into the shower and told her to wake Tyler. She pulled on the infant's hand to turn him over and discovered his body stiff. She screamed. Ron told her to dial 911. The doctors said it was SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. They buried Tyler two days later...
...tourists' South says little about the real people who live there, but speaks volumes about what other Americans, like me, expect to find. In the back of my mind I looked for Scarlett when I crossed the Tennessee line. (In a Vicksburg restaurant, my father insisted on trying a mint julep.) We tourists sought out the scores of mansions with porches and green lawns because that's where we thought we'd find the "real" South--and the historical societies, with their steep admissions charges and gift shops, weren't about to disappoint...
...these encounters eros and thanatos are exquisitely mixed. The dead body of the first woman's father is clearly visible as she confesses her confused passion; the prostitute turns out to be under the threat of AIDS; the orgiasts, resenting William's intrusion on their saturnalia, threaten him with humiliation and death, and he is "redeemed" only by the intervention of a mysterious woman, who pays for his life with...
DIED. FRED TRUMP, 93, entrepreneurial builder and father of mogul Donald Trump--who credits much of his success to his dad; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The elder Trump began his career in the 1920s selling one-family homes, later moving on to lucrative New York City high rises...