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Refusing to give a "post-mortem" on his campaign, he instead stressed his upcoming work on the "Better Budget" and alternative budget to Gov. Edward J. King...
...domain is T.V. production, but she masquerades too as a plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...
...major political figure of the 20th century and his presidency remains an important factor in all our lives. Historians, journalists and interested citizens of the present and future will find his papers invaluable for understanding the use and abuse of power. We can learn from the post-mortem how better to treat the disease...
...there's another group of voters out there that feels none of the intoxication of post-mortem election analysis. Tuesday night brought for them a numbness that came on like a novacaine injection all at once at about 8:15 p.m., and lingers still. For these voters--many former supporters of Edward Kennedy, or backers of John Anderson, or supporters of smaller third parties, or even those who "held their noses and voted for Carter"--the election not only rejected their candidates but told them they no longer were part of American politics. "America is a conservative nation...
There is swirling around the post-mortem of this venture a larger question.What risks should a President take in these dangerous times? There is a considerable and growing force within and around the Government that opposes almost any action that entails risk to life or property even in the national interest. Unwittingly, perhaps, but nevertheless effectively, congressional investigations lend weight to these arguments for inaction...