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...Neither ran on what many Democrats would consider a traditional--that is, liberal--agenda. Carter was the first born-again Christian President; Clinton once owned a pickup truck with AstroTurf carpeting in the back. Carter won because he seemed a simple, honorable antidote to the excessive dishonesty of the Nixon era. Clinton won because he was far more talented than his opponents--George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole--but also because he rejected his party's orthodoxy on crime (especially the death penalty), welfare reform, free trade and fiscal conservatism. One could argue that the only winning strategy...
...even though its summer run hasn't even premiered yet. It depends on Fox finding a way to recreate the success of "Joe Millionaire" (Mondays at 8 E.T. next fall), even though we all now know the original gimmick. (Berman said the network has a "secret plan," a la Nixon with Vietnam, to add a new twist...
...truth is that all of this mess is due to the swing voters. In the 43 years since JFK beat Nixon on coolness points in the first televised presidential debates, the style-over-substance junta has come to rule this nation with an iron-fist. If their influence continues to grow unchecked, I project that we will see presidential debates replaced with Zoolander-style “walk offs” no later than 2016. Then again, this may not be such a bad thing, as it couldn’t hurt to have a leader with grace, poise...
...Irrecoverable. Part of the Watergate sound archive; 18-and-a-half minutes of a tape recording of a June 20, 1972 conversation between then U.S. President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman about the Watergate break-in; in Washington, D.C. Technical efforts to recover the lost segment of the tape, believed to have been erased by Nixon, by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration have been abandoned, although the tape will be preserved in a climate-controlled vault...
...credible, competent guardian of national security. That's a hurdle that the Governor of Arkansas didn't have to clear in 1992, nor the Governor of Texas eight years later. "Security is very much on the table, as much as it was in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon," says Kerry, who is emphasizing both his Vietnam War record and his foreign policy record in his campaign...