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...music it is called rallentando, a gradual slackening of tempo, a winding down. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, for example, slipped into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make L.B.J., strictly speaking, a second-termer (his "first term" was the unexpired part of John...
...picture moved toward Blute. "But when he wanted to increase taxes, I voted against him"; Clinton's picture faded into the distance. "And when he wanted to cut education, I voted against him"; Gingrich's picture suffered the same fate. Clever, but not enough. Blute lost to Jim McGovern, who incessantly pointed out that Blute had voted with Gingrich 85% of the time, and whose ads took advantage of a fortuitous rhyme: "You wouldn't vote for Newt; why would you ever vote for Blute...
...JAMES MCGOVERN (D) District...
...McGovern is a former congressional aide seeking his own seat in Congress. His No. 1 priority is to ensure safe neighborhoods by extending President Clinton's six-year plan to put 100,000 cops on U.S. streets and giving communities four extra years of government funding before they must pay the new salaries on their own. McGovern's plan also includes funding for full-time truant officers and a ban on "cop-killer" bullets. To help the children of the Third, he vows to make all schools computer-friendly...
...MCGOVERN...