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...this year. Heading toward Thanksgiving, the river of presidential politics is still gushing and roiling all over the place - flooding the basement, short-circuiting the media wires, driving the snakes out of their holes. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is an optimist, thinks the current mess might actually attract fresh, idealistic talents to politics. Perhaps it will happen. But first we must find a way to ostracize the old egos...
...Rick Lazio, her opponent, taking his daughter with him into the ballot box - inside a Ford dealership. There's something so sad and small about the idea, about executing this grand, public, civic gesture in a private business, a car dealership, no less. Not to sound like Doris Kearns Goodwin here, but voting should take place in schools, in courthouses, settings that call to mind our common bond and the idea of aspiring to a better future. Places that call to mind the Pledge of Allegiance, not the phrase, "You're gonna want to get the full undercoating package...
...America's Queen won't shock anyone with its conclusion that Jackie still hovers over us as a model of poise and grace. What's new are revelations about Jackie from folks a bit closer to her than a thrice-removed Kennedy cousin. Gore Vidal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Richard Goodwin, Jackie's ultracompetitive sister Lee Radziwill Ross and several of Jackie's ex-lovers comment on, among other things, her romantic issues with father figures, her intense, loving relationship with Bobby Kennedy, and her father "Black Jack" Bouvier's habit of sharing play-by-play analysis of his sex life...
...Harvard has an edge there already," said Nancy Goodwin, referring to the buildings Harvard already owns on the site. "They are not encroaching further into the neighborhood...
...members who actually believe in something besides winning elections chained in the basement - as W. did so masterfully two weeks ago - but those are the facts today. That too was the consensus among last night's panels of TV pundits, with the usual exception of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose designated role is to point out how badly the country's gone into the crapper since there was a Roosevelt in the White House. "I've always thought the Democratic party overestimated the problems that liberals would have reaching out to independents," she commented. Tell it to President Dukakis...