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...addition, the President's closest advisers in the White House???Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver?wanted the Administration to criticize the Israelis openly for more personal reasons: they felt Begin had insulted President Reagan, first by not telling the whole truth when he said it was Israel's intention to limit its invasion of Lebanon to an area within 40 kilometers of the border, and then by ignoring Reagan's initial plea for a cease-fire as the tanks rumbled on to Beirut...
...Would Ronald Reagan insist on a vice-presidential nominee who would appeal only to true-blue conservatives? And in accepting the Republican nomination, would he sound a trumpet call for those same conservatives, relying chiefly on the increasing strength of the right to carry him to the White House???if it could? After four days of flag waving and festivity at the G.O.P. convention in Detroit, the answer was clear. Failing in a dramatic and ill-considered maneuver to get Gerald Ford on the ticket as vice-presidential candidate, Reagan settled for the logical choice, George Bush...
Ditchley can't recall exactly when he first began to suspect that the lawyers were out to get him. Maybe it was when, as a young man, he bought a modest house???and had to take out a second mortgage to pay the lawyer's closing fee. Maybe it was when Grandmother left some money, and Ditchley, through his grief, began dreaming of a nice vacation and maybe enough left over for a snowblower. Then the lawyers got into the act, clucking about what a mess Grandmother had left and how lucky Ditchley was that, thanks to their skill...
...past. More than half of its members?61 Senators and 231 Representatives?were first elected within the past nine years; more than one-third of them have been in office for three years or less. Young, well-educated and aggressively independent?of both their own leaders and the White House???they are continuing the congressional revolution that started as a reaction to the tragic mistakes of Viet Nam and Richard Nixon's imperial presidency. The balance has been restored, and perhaps even swung in the opposite direction: Congress, the branch of Government that most closely reflects the will...
Contrary to expectations, the newcomers?particularly the 47 freshmen and 78 sophomores who make up 43% of the Democrats in the House???turned out not to be very liberal in their voting. One reason: many of them come from marginally Democratic districts, and in some cases from normally Republican ones...