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...other construction projects. But with no strings attached, cities often simply tucked the money into their general budgets, spending it on such traditionally local functions as police and fire fighters and even golf courses. Says Martin Anderson, a former Reagan adviser and now a fellow at California's Hoover Institution: "Revenue sharing is a pure grant; you don't have to take any responsibilities. That's why local governments love...
...revenues; by 1983 they supplied 14.2%. Meanwhile, federal revenue sharing, which contributed 13.7% of all local government income in 1973, dropped to 6.4% in 1983. That leads the Administration to claim that cities really will not miss the dwindling federal funds as much as their officials fear. Contends the Hoover Institution's Anderson: "If a politician can't squeeze 5% or 6% out of a budget without a major tax increase, he shouldn't be in office...
...conspiracy. CBS's Kill Me If You Can played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history by being selective. Ike, which focused on a purported World War II romance between President...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...