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...done to so many of their adversaries in the party-dump them. But that is not his style of politics. Since his election three weeks ago, he has been trying to bring some cohesion to the fractured Democrats. In fact, he wants the party to be a family ball. "Goddam!" he says. "Let's make this party a place where you can have a laugh and a drink again...
Through it all he faces death unrepentant. "I don't feel guilty for a goddam thing I've done on earth," he says. "I believe it was Thoreau who said, 'What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?' And if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior." It seems a fitting epitaph for Washington's last angry...
...three networks offered disclaimers of a rat, horse or broadcast race. "It's accuracy that counts," insisted NBC Executive Producer Robert Northshield. "I didn't give one goddam who won the race. The minute I walk into the studio I always enjoy a suspension of citizenship." Still he was quick to recall that NBC had been the first to predict the Johnson victory in 1964. ABC News President Elmer Lower also demanded accuracy over immediacy-and put his network where his mouth was. Ronald Reagan, among others, had asked that broadcasters hold predictions until Western polls closed...
...never aloof. He has none of Nixon's wariness of the press and is straightforward and direct. He is so direct that at one point when he wanted a moment of privacy with a staffer, he turned to a network camera crew and growled: "You gotta keep that goddam thing on me all the time...
...William Westmoreland has retired from the top job, and Army Vice Chief of Staff General Bruce C. Palmer Jr. has been serving as chief, waiting for the announcement. "It's an unprecedented case," says one angry Army general. "It's hard on Abe and it's goddam hard on the Army that's been waiting for him and needs...