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...modern President can. "I've reserved for myself only the things I have to do," Jimmy Carter says. But everything still revolves around the President. He sits in his study-with pastorals by American impressionist painters on his wall, his bookshelves laden with biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy-and seems very much alone. But all things converge upon him, and there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation...
...government faces up to its responsibilities in urban centers and the suburbs end their hostility to the inner city, disaster may indeed be just around the corner. Lupo's study echoes Elma Lewis's observation that if our urban problems cannot be solved in Boston, where can they be? Jefferson Flanders...
...Thomas Jefferson called it "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." In the past 200 years, more than 500 proposals have been made by Congress to reform it. Last week, for the first time in this century, a President put the weight of his office behind the notion that it should be abolished altogether. Jimmy Carter proposed that the arcane and archaic Electoral College be replaced with direct, popular-vote presidential elections. He called the change "an issue of overriding Government significance...
Generally, Presidents have accepted the traditions of the office, moving from their own backgrounds into the prescribed ritual and style with minor adjustments here and there. Thomas Jefferson dressed simply and did walk to and from his Inaugural, but he adopted classic architecture and Louis XVI furniture. He eschewed the pomp of Kings, but he enjoyed regal dinners, which Carter does not. History suggests no correlation between the adoption of presidential tradition and success. Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat and saved the nation. Herbert Hoover often wore his tux to dinner-and nearly lost the country...
...National Weather Service last week made it official. After consulting informal temperature records kept by such oldtimers as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau and Noah Webster, the service announced that January in the eastern two-thirds of the country was the coldest month in 177 years. If temperatures through March run only moderately below normal, said the weathermen, the nation will have a true Bicentennial winter: the most shivery since the founding of the Republic...