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Also misleading. In most of his views, Gorbachev is a thoroughly Soviet, obdurately Communist figure. When he speaks of "democracy," as he incessantly does, he does not mean anything Thomas Jefferson would have recognized; he promotes freer discussion within the Communist Party only as a substitute for the political opposition he makes clear he will not tolerate. If he voices criticism of Soviet society, it is because that system has in his view strayed from the ideals of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state and Gorbachev's idol. And though he argues frequently for a new relationship...
...Moscow State University. At the National Gallery, when employees gathered to applaud her, she stopped to chat, noting that she was "glad to see so many of the staff are women." On a White House tour, she peppered Nancy Reagan with queries: Was that a 19th century chandelier? Did Jefferson live here? And, by the way, when was the White House built? The First Lady, already irritated by her visitor's magnetic gravitation toward the television cameras, was stumped. An assistant curator came to the rescue with dates: between 1792 and 1800. "I'm not much help," Nancy Reagan confessed...
Some of our best Presidents have been adulterers. The unfaithful husbands in modern times (so far as we know) were Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and John Kennedy--three of the 20th century's best presidents. Thomas Jefferson was reviled in his day for allegedly keeping a slave mistress. Cleveland was a tavern brawler who admitted to fathering an illegitimate child. Lincoln, although apparently faithful to his wife, hated his father so much that he didn't even show up at his funeral...
...newcomers may be just as flat-footed as the old team: three weeks ago Gephardt's Iowa lieutenants tried to organize a secret straw poll of Democrats attending the annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinner, though the party had banned such entrance surveys. The gambit failed when police dispersed the polltakers. But a greater problem is that his candidacy just has not caught fire. Instead of getting the chance to break out of the pack in Iowa, Gephardt may doom his candidacy there...
...Gannon and others was the recent addition of marijuana use -- no matter when it occurred -- as a scandale du jour. The tendency to press excess was visible in a little-noted but unforgettable moment on Nov. 7, as all six candidates gathered in Des Moines for the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, ready to discuss the issues. That same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke, and the politicians were forced to hack through thickets of have-you-ever interrogation. Two (Al Gore and Bruce Babbitt) volunteered that they had. When...