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...19th century page-turner by the French author Henri Stendhal. But let's be honest here--who reads Stendhal, really? (Aside from the Paris-bound Alec Baldwin, perhaps.) The fact is, people of average intelligence often make excellent presidents (Truman, Reagan, even FDR) while brilliant chief executives like Hoover, Nixon, Carter and Clinton tend to trip over their own feet. Intellectual snobbery is all well and good, but it shouldn't be carried into the voting booth...
...reluctantly backed the large-scale introduction of U.S. troops. Later he was critical of Henry Kissinger's secretive attempts to disentangle America from the war. "Everyone in the State Department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Kissinger said after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest...
...George W. Bush and his stupidity: Are his little mispronunciations ("subliminable") and touches of blank panic when the discussion gets complex to be compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon's weird refusal to destroy the tapes? Can W. measure up to the standard of the Gingrich Republicans, who seized the government with a Cromwellian vengeance in 1994 and then so idiotically overplayed their hand that Bill Clinton deftly recovered and sailed on through a second term? No. The Republicans since Ronald...
DIED. FRANK WILLS, 52, keen-eyed former Watergate security guard who discovered the break-in that led to Richard Nixon's resignation; from brain cancer; in Augusta, Ga. Working the midnight shift at the complex, Wills called police after noticing tape on door locks leading to the offices of the Democratic National Committee. When they arrived, they found a burglary in progress. After a brief period of fame, Wills spent the remainder of his life largely in poverty...
...seemed oddly unprepared for the RU-486 question. Gore, although looking like he's made out of rawhide, is doing pretty well. His answers are more cogent. And what's the deal with W.'s makeup? I thought he was supposed to be Jack Kennedy to Gore's 1960 Nixon. It looks like it's the other way around. Bush, though, did well on energy. Nice use of local issues in coal states and Washington State...