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Then there was Herbert Hoover. His name was associated with every stinking aspect of the Great Depression. Shantytowns where the unemployed lived were called "Hoovervilles." The newspapers people slept under were "Hoover blankets." The opposums and rabbits vagrants ate in city parks were "Hoover steaks...
Congress, far from a perfect institution, is often the rightful object of national scorn. But charges of privilege and failure to respect rule of law, coming from George Herbert Walker Bush, are not just inaccurate--they are remarkably ironic...
Those predecessors included such stalwart liberal thinkers as founding editor Herbert Croly and early contributor Walter Lippmann. But in 1974 the magazine was bought by Martin Peretz. It subsequently reflected his evolution from a major donor to liberal Democratic causes to a leading neoconservative with hawkish views on foreign policy. During the 1980s the magazine went soft on the Reagan Administration, ridiculed much of the Democratic Party for its lack of pragmatism and echoed Peretz's forceful pro-Israel views. No journal has done better explaining the often unprincipled but always practical reasoning of Bush Administration officials, who routinely unburdened...
...news for you, George . . . Herbert . . . Walker . . . Bush," he says, jabbing his forefinger in the air. "Next year the American working people are going to veto you!" Lines like that evoke applause from blue- collar workers, farmers and party activists. So does Harkin's hectoring of new-wave Democrats who would move the party toward the center. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, who became a candidate on Friday, glories in his record of fiscal austerity. Paul Tsongas, the earliest aspirant, styles himself a pro-business Democrat. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, still mulling a run, comes across as a middle-roader. Of Harkin...
...writings favoring the use of "natural law" but said they were the musings of a part-time political theorist and would have no bearing on his interpretation of the Constitution. The Democrats had to admit they were stymied. "Who this man really is, I don't really know," said Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. The Republicans happily bragged about their strategy. "It's O.K. not to give the answer as long as it's not because you don't know the answer," said a senior Administration official...