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Older historians, it turns out, were more lenient in judging Presidents. Toughest on Hoover, for instance, were those under 40 and easiest were those over 65, the very children of the Depression so often blamed on Hoover. Women historians (only 59 were tabulated) were generally harsher in judging Presidents than the men. For whatever reasons, they were particularly down on Polk and Washington. They rated Carter, L.B.J., Grant and Kennedy higher than...
...tour of West European capitals in December, partly for fear that Nitze would contaminate the leaders along the way with his gloomy views. "Whoever Paul's been talking to over there," said Perle, "has got the poor man in a state of despair." Richard Burt was harsher: "Nitze's utterly spooked; he's gone around the bend; he's panicking; he's falling apart." To Nitze's face, Burt said, "Relax. The trouble will die down once we get over the hump at the end of the year...
...hemisphere. We are beginning to draw some lines here. How much of it do you take before you say, 'This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore democracy at the point of a bayonet." House Democrats were initially more muted...
...band set-up is clearly the harsher of the two, as Epps paranoia for offensive segments has gone to ridiculous extremes. Although millions of theatergoers over the past 300 years have been exposed to the line in Shakespeare's Macbeth by the pricking of my thumbs," the dean felt the phrase too risqué for the football crowd. He asked the band to change the line, originally a direct quote in the Cornell script, to "by the twitching of my thumbs...
...leaving the presidency before 1989," he said defiantly last week. Ominously comparing this year's unrest with the last days of Allende, Pinochet added: "I am in a more cautious position, but if they [the opposition] push me, be sure we will get the state of siege. And harsher than before...