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...depressive Senator-hero first arranges his own assassination and then, with nothing to lose but his hypocrisy, starts spouting truth-telling rap songs about corruption. Was Beatty's performance really a rehearsal? Famously cagey and deliberate, Beatty isn't talking. Yet. But seasoned Washington figures such as Bill Moyers, Lyndon Johnson's former press secretary, and Pat Caddell, Jimmy Carter's pollster, are already giving the actor a fighting chance at doing for grass-roots liberalism what Reagan did for Goldwater conservatism. Skeptics abound, of course, but one crucial fact about Beatty bears remembering as the story unfolds...
...course, ever since Adams and Jefferson, there has been a tradition of father-son rivalry in the White House. Eisenhower helpfully told reporters he couldn't think of a single idea Nixon contributed during their eight-year tenure together. Hubert Humphrey died politically in Lyndon Johnson's war. When George Bush promised a "kinder, gentler nation" in 1988, he meant kinder and gentler than Ronald Reagan...
Despite such sentiments, Dole was able to make use of her education. After graduation, she took on a government job as a White House consumer affairs lawyer. This was the first of many public sector jobs for Dole, who started her political life as a Lyndon Johnson Democrat and soon became a stalwart in the Reagan Republican cabinets...
...issues most lawmakers avoided as too complicated or politically expensive. The conviction that made him drag the spotlight onto Milosevic back then comes back to haunt him now, as the unfolding conflict inspires new Vietnam analogies every day, ones in which Gore plays Hubert Humphrey to Clinton's Lyndon Johnson. And yet rather than going AWOL, Gore has charged into the flames, touting himself as an "active participant" in the policymaking and stating the case for intervention as he campaigns across the country. Kosovo reflects what he has cared about, fought for and forced onto the agenda, even when political...
Clinton is making the same mistake Lyndon Johnson made in Vietnam in supposing that bombing will force a rational response from an irrational person. Assuming a dictator will act in the best interest of his nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...