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...photographs of President Saddam Hussein everywhere in the capital, his beaming countenance gazing reassuringly down on his countrymen. The state-controlled television news, now broadcast in color, projects the same kind of official optimism. True, there has been an unbroken series of military victories on the fighting front to lend credence to Saddam's leadership abilities. No one talks about what might happen if there were a reversal on the battlefield...
...public affairs more closely? Decidedly. The Reagan Administration, more than any before it, aims its message to the big television audiences and wastes little time on those who want to follow the fine print. Reagan obviously didn't invent the homely example: Remember how Roosevelt shrewdly argued for Lend-Lease to Britain, justifying it as lending a hose to a neighbor to put out a fire? Nor did Reagan invent the bite-size explanation of policy. Gergen, from his speechwriting days for Richard Nixon, remembers Nixon's insistence that press statements be less than 100 words long: "That...
...irreconcilable differences in the answers to some of the most pressing security issues facing the West: What are its true interests in dealing with a Communist system that is spectacularly failing on a domestic level but has turned into a military power equal to the U.S.? Should the West lend a helping hand in the economic development of the Soviet bloc in hopes of influencing political reform behind the Iron Curtain, or should it, on the contrary, use its economic leverage to try to bring the Soviet system to its knees? Either way, is there any reason to believe that...
...gone neoconservative and dyed in-the-wool liberal critics aren't happy. Big deal. No one-ever read White's quadrennial bestsellers because they agreed with his politics. America snapped up the Making of the President series, and In Search of History because of White's ability to lend dreary presidential races the excitement of a bullfight or a boxing match...
Congress created the Federal Reserve in 1913 after a rash of financial panics showed the need for a central body to regulate the money supply and lend funds to banks caught short of cash. With the Treasury Secretary as chairman, the board at first was almost an arm of the White House...