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...psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched from script to print.) As for the age change, which apparently occurred about the time Hart turned 30, "There's nothing sinister there. There is no benefit to me from it. It didn't help me politically, it didn...
...party activists. John Glenn set the tone by suggesting that Walter Mondale had been slavishly catering to a wide array of special-interest groups in his quest for the party's presidential nomination. "Will we offer a party that can't say no to anyone with a letterhead and a mailing list?" the Ohio Senator asked. When Mondale's turn came, he pushed aside his prepared text and zeroed in on his opponent's vote in favor of President Reagan's 1981 tax cut. "Of all the measures in modern political history in which...
...seemed like Fantasy Island. He came in 1977 to start a new life. He promptly hooked up with Real Estate Salesman Sunlin Wong and created an investment firm grandly named Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong. Rewald and Wong, however, were the only unmisleading names on the company's letterhead. The others were included to convince investors that the firm was connected to Hawaii's old-line, blue-chip Bishops, Baldwins and Dillinghams, which it was not. Says one local businessman: "It was as if he arrived in Manhattan and had a firm called Rockefeller, Harriman, Cabot, Forbes & Roosevelt...
...that the dean went around the country recruiting the best young prospects from graduate schools, made them associates, and if they did well after a few years offered them a chance to buy into the business as partners. The really successful professors would eventually get their names on the letterhead, and secretaries around Cambridge would answer the phone, "Good morning, Finley, Galbraith, Riesman and Handlin...
...writing this letter on the "official letterhead" of the "Department of Government" (I can't afford anything else) but the Faculty Council must know these are my own views, not the collective viewpoint of the Department of Government, something not easily arrived at in any case. In short, the "official letterhead" doctrine is untenable. It is unfortunate the Faculty Council did not say as much. Martin Kilson Professor of Government