Word: jacked
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...party that Dole will stand before this week started to take shape more than three decades ago, at about the time he arrived in national politics. Dole was first elected to the House in 1960, the year Jack Kennedy regained the White House for Democrats, who already controlled Congress. The conventional wisdom foresaw a new era of liberalism and activist government. For once the conventional wisdom was right. But most of the 40 or so G.O.P. House freshmen were so right-leaning they were called the Young Fogeys. That was fine with Dole. During his eight years in the House...
Enter eight reindeer, to the sound of sleigh bells. Supply-side theory, developed by Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer and passionately advanced by New York Representative Jack Kemp, held that sharp cuts in income taxes would actually increase government revenues by unleashing the pent-up power of the economy. Jobs and higher wages would explode like popcorn, from which higher tax revenues would follow, despite the lower rates. In no time, the supply-side theory went from being a disputed intellectual curiosity to being the unofficial doctrine of the party. It made possible a new, infinitely optimistic Republicanism, one that...
...great mentioner included this former Cincinnati mayor on the second tier of rumored Veep picks. The first African American to hold statewide executive office in Ohio, Blackwell has a resume that includes stints as city councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...
...line a presidential library, no biographer until now had chosen to focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
This lack of definitive or even consistent answers has not stopped Jack and Jackie from landing on best-seller lists, and All Too Human will no doubt follow. For in the way of many guilty pleasures, this gossipfest makes for swift and astounding reading, even if we have heard most of it before. Open either book at will and encounter the drunken Black Jack Bouvier perhaps too attached to his beautiful and precocious daughter; the eager Jack Kennedy pressing himself upon every woman he meets; Max ("Dr. Feelgood") Jacobson administering his amphetamine potions to both President and First Lady. Marilyn...