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Once again, like a recurring jungle fever, Viet Nam forced itself to the front of the nation's consciousness. Richard Nixon is certainly "winding down" the war. But he seems unable to extricate the Government completely from the credibility gap dug in Lyndon Johnson's time, and sometimes he deepens the gap himself...
Almost a week passed before relief flights began to trickle food and medicine to the ravaged islands. On many islands, cholera and typhoid fever arrived several days in advance of government relief supplies...
...does. And the incident illustrates Martha Mitchell's virulent case of Potomac Fever, a malady to which few top-and middle-echelon Washington wives are immune?whether they be Watergate nouveaux, Georgetown chic, or Cleveland Park intellectual elbow-patch...
...Potomac Fever is compounded of the sense of excitement, importance, freedom and expanded possibilities that grows gradually upon newcomers to Washington. It increases both their pleasure in being there and their chagrin and insecurity that it all may so soon be taken away. For some men of power and politics, the city tends to be like a chessboard, for some a football field, for others a blood-drenched battleground. For their wives it is often like a cruise ship: the rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning...
...Arthur Burns, wife of the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is currently exhibiting an advanced case of Potomac Fever. When she last lived in Washington, under the socially dull Eisenhower Administration, her husband was an economic adviser. "This time we're meeting heads of state, we're talking to people who make history," she wonderingly exclaims. "Each time I go to the White House it's a special thrill ?and we go there often now. You make that turn into the grounds you sweep up to the portico, and I think, 'It's mine! It's ours!' Washington...