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...Republic, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic and other journals of the cognoscenti. Gurus abound in the likes of Robert Reich, I ester Thurow, and Charles Peters--and there are plenty of politicians who have been ready and willing to take up the "new ideas" cudgel: Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.). Sen Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.). Rep. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.). And there are, of course, the requisite buzzwords: industrial policy, human capital and military reform are the current faces...
Though the appeal of the Hart pitch is understandable, it is exactly the type of misguided response Karnow says he is trying to avoid...
...recent manifestation of the "no-more-Vietnams" sentiment among youth was the surge of support for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) in the recent primaries after Hart, without the sublety or the shadings of a Karnow or even a Walter F. Mondale, advocated an unequivocal non-interventionist line vis-a-vis the Middle East and Central America...
...their dreams. But who would be? Jimmy Carter? George McGovern? Lyndon Johnson? John Kennedy? There may be something in the last. The Democrats' model of the perfect candidate, a Platonic form buried somewhere in the subconscious of the party, may indeed be John Kennedy, the slain prince. Gary Hart seemed to think as much during the campaign. He quoted and even impersonated Kennedy, trying to tap into underground wells of memory and longing in the souls of the baby-boom generation...
...that they can squander in that direction. But in the broad American middle class, and in the enormous generation that came of age in the '60s, that fought on both sides of the Viet Nam question, there is a reservoir of latent idealism waiting to be tapped. Gary Hart almost found it. Mondale and Ferraro may be able to do so if they are sufficiently imaginative and creative to devise the forms into which that idealism might be poured...