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...first time I ever heard my mother sound nervous was last July, and by then she had been dead for two years. I was at the L.B.J. library in Austin, Texas, listening to a telephone call she had placed to President Lyndon Johnson more than four years before I was born. "Nancy Dickerson is on line two," begins the White House operator. Johnson picks up: "Yes, honey." She tries to start with a joke, but it warbles out: "The next time I need a new swimming suit I'm going to consult you." The President is silent, having forgotten...
...Only days to go. They paid their money - what's our choice? The 1960 analogy is disconcerting. That election came after the relatively serene Eisenhower years. And pretty soon after 1960, all hell broke loose - assassinations, riots, war, the glorious '60s. And the onset of the dark, ruined presidencies - Lyndon Johnson's, Richard Nixon...
...about war, for example. The entire administration of Abraham Lincoln, one of the two or three greatest American presidents, revolved around war. The meaning of another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, centered first upon great depression, and then upon world war. The war in Vietnam destroyed the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon (his Watergate schemes having been cooked up to counter the antiwar movement.) The Cold War dominated American politics from Truman to Reagan...
Once upon a time, Robb was regarded as presidential material--a square-shouldered moderate who had commanded a rifle company in Vietnam, married Lyndon Johnson's daughter and co-founded the Democratic Leadership Council that dragged the party back to the political center. Now, at 61, he's one of the Senate's most endangered incumbents, running a campaign in which he seems to have the bearing of a Senator but not the substance. Polls have him running anywhere from 3 to 10 points behind his Republican challenger, George Allen, son of a former Washington Redskins coach and, like Robb...
...Once upon a time, Robb was regarded as presidential material - a square-shouldered moderate who had commanded a rifle company in Vietnam, married Lyndon Johnson's daughter and co-founded the Democratic Leadership Council that dragged the party back to the political center. Now, at 61, he's one of the Senate's most endangered incumbents, running a campaign in which he seems to have the bearing of a Senator but not the substance. Polls have him running anywhere from 3 to 10 points behind his Republican challenger, George Allen, son of a former Washington Redskins coach and, like Robb...