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Never one to root for confusion merely for the sake of party success, Tsongas offers his advice freely to a president whom he sees in a hopeless situation. "The great issues for the future are energy, the economy, defense, environment, the third world, and international trade. Inflation is a function of these things. The basic question he should ask himself is. 'Does it work?' not 'Does it adhere to my right wing philosophy?" When you come out with Kemp-Roth, you are not answering that question...
...score does not indicate how much effort the Crimson put forth in a contest they knew beforehand was a hopeless cause. Peppered with a number of close, gutsy swims that were decided by fractions of seconds, Harvard fought valiantly to the end, and used the stellar quality of the Princeton competitors to spur them on to new personal records...
...payment of $24 billion in cash and gold. That amount was the Iranian estimate of the value of the assets frozen by the U.S. Government, interest owed to Iran and the holdings of the late Shah's estate. American officials seriously considered breaking off the talks as hopeless. Instead, they decided to ignore the bizarre $24 billlion figure and to push ahead with the discussions. The Iranians never again mentioned the $24 billion demand...
...best place to learn this and other regional truths is the bleachers at Fenway Park, where I attended my first lesson in the year of the great pennant race. Detroit--hopeless, out of it, grungy--was in town, and the game, like every game that fall, meant everything...
...failed raid left the U.S. with few useful cards to play. It may also have been the moment at which the electorate, almost subliminally, began to harden in the view that Carter was hopeless. Yet he continued to roll over Kennedy in the primaries and went on to win renomination by his party. Republican Ronald Reagan continued to hammer away at the Administration's foreign policy failings without dwelling on the desert debacle. But it was becoming clear that Carter's handling of the entire hostage crisis was perceived by many voters as a disaster...