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...startling thing about Ronald Reagan's postelection presidency is that so much remains the same. When Richard Nixon was voted another term in 1972, he demanded resignations from 2,000 political appointees with an eye to weeding out his first-term team and infusing the survivors with a little fear from the boss. Reagan has done just the opposite...
...incumbent President who never lost his grip," says one Mondale aide. White House strategists say that the President was shaken only once, when he stumbled in the first debate. Otherwise Reagan has been able to float along, sounding broad themes, flexing the power of his office, and reinforcing his image as a strong leader. Rather than outline what he would try to do in the next four years, he contrasts his first-term record against the "Carter-Mondale" Administration. He asks voters, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" and boasts that the "misery index" (the rate...
...days later, HUAC members, spurred on by first-term California Congressman Richard Nixon, called Eastman Kodak to check on the film's emulsion numbers. They got bad news: the film could not have been manufactured before 1945, which meant that Chambers must be lying. Furious, Nixon phoned Chambers to demand an explanation. But minutes later, Kodak called back to apologize for its mistake: the film could indeed have been made in 1938. "Poor Chambers," said a relieved Nixon. "Nobody ever believes him at first...
Ordinarily, it is simply assumed that a first-term President will run for reelection, even if his prospects seem as dubious as those of Jimmy Carter-or, for that matter, as hopeless as those of Herbert Hoover. But Reagan would be the first President to be less than three weeks shy of his 78th birthday when he finished a second term. And he does not feel the driving personal ambition that would make re-election a psychological necessity...
...Harvard men's squash team hits the heart of its season this month, following first-term shutouts of Trinity and Army...