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...professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, feels quite differently about the term. In a monumental new book bluntly titled Bribes (Macmillan; $29.95), he applies the word to figures as distinguished as Francis Bacon and Thomas a Becket, and to a whole array of U.S. Presidents: Monroe, Garfield, Johnson, Nixon. Noonan's 5,000-year chronicle of scandals is deplorably entertaining, but what is still more interesting is his demonstration of how the whole concept of bribery has evolved...
...small l, small d liberal democrat." With a John F. Kennedy haircut and a surfeit of vigor, Kemp is the only member of the House who has built a truly national following. No one, however, has been elected directly from the House to the presidency since James Garfield...
...Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign boost expected of a running mate, and sometimes the only one: when Chester Arthur ran for Veep in 1880 on a ticket headed by James Garfield, he did not venture out of New York for the entire campaign-and carried it. In 1960, Pollster Louis Harris found that Lyndon Johnson added a crucial 4 percentage points to John Kennedy's standing in Texas, which was essential to a Democratic victory. However, not every running mate comes...
...almost spectacular nonentity who have run for the office of Vice President. William E. Miller, Barry Goldwater's 1964 partner, made a joke of it in an American Express card commercial. Chester A. Arthur had been nothing more than head of the customs house in New York when James Garfield took him onto his ticket. After Garfield's assassination, Arthur made a competent and honest President in a dishonest...
...been around, neither would Bloom County--for Bloom County is clearly a child of the Doonesbury era. Politically and sometimes sentimentally accurate. Bloom County makes the best stab around at carrying the Doonesbury torch. But Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury and Garfield, where it begins to remind one of Dennis the Menace. Because he has chosen child rather than adult heroes. Breathed sometimes indulges in "aren't they cutisms," which become a bit of a crutch...