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...full disclosure of his records, some say he might well fit a fairly common depression syndrome: the ambitious, energetic and successful person who at moments of achievement envisions even higher goals that seem depressingly out of reach. It is, oddly, an illness of the ablest. Says Washington Psychiatrist Zigmond Lebensohn of Eagleton: "The very fact that he reached out for help is healthy." While recurrence of depression cannot be ruled out, the fact that Eagleton has gone six years without treatment and has performed effectively in office makes it less likely. Lebensohn says he treated high political figures as long...
Juan Perón has his own technique for silencing critics without making too many martyrs. Two weeks ago, Radical Party Leader Moises Lebensohn received a one-year "conditional" jail sentence for showing "disrespect" to Perón in a campaign speech. The condition: Lebensohn goes free, but if he speaks out again in the next five years, he can look forward to serving a double term...
Walkout. Canny Moisés Lebensohn, Radical Party leader, sniffed the heady, Peronista atmosphere and waited his chance for a dramatic move. It came when Peronista Arturo Sampay admitted in an unguarded moment that Article 77, revised to allow Peron to succeed himself, might be restored to its original form after the 1952 elections. Lebensohn leaped...
...purpose of re-electing General Perón," he shouted, "we can no longer take part in this farcical debate." As one man, the 48 Radicals tore up their copies of the new constitution, flung the pieces in the Peronistas' faces and marched out. "We shall return," declaimed Lebensohn over his shoulder. "We shall yet return to write another constitution...
Even that change did not satisfy Opposition Delegate Moises Lebensohn. In a bristling speech which Convention President Domingo A. Mercante did not try to stop, he denounced the plan to bring Perón's portrait into the chamber. "Neither in France, Great Britain nor the U.S. has it ever occurred to anybody to place a portrait of the chief of state in the halls of parliament," he shouted...