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None came. The Senator spoke knowingly and graciously through dinner, but he did not even reveal what Colonel North was wearing. Nor will he. There is an iron discipline beneath the rounded Georgia verbs that Nunn uses so precisely. He is as stern a critic as any fellow Democrat of Ronald Reagan's performances these days, but he has not called on the President to fire anybody in the White House ("That's up to the President"). When asked by a reporter if Reagan's staff had been coaching the President to lie to the press and the American people...
Amidst the screeching and bellowing of the past two weeks, Nunn has sought and held the reassuring middle octaves. In a torrent of pent-up partisan glee released by a major Reagan failure, he has refused to prophesy the end of Reaganism or the fall of the Western Alliance. "The Republic survives almost anything we do inside the Beltway," he chuckles...
...ultimate irony in this unsettled season in the Federal City is that Sam Nunn has probably gained more ground as a presidential prospect during this crisis than any other Democrat. He had a long way to go, since he is virtually unrecognized in the country, but achieving honorable stature in the power plays along the Potomac does finally seep into the national consciousness...
There is about Nunn an echo from a more stable and responsible past in the U.S. Senate. Senators Walter George and Richard Russell were friends of his family's, and they moved in and out of his boyhood, heroes on that far-off Washington stage that beckoned him. The legendary Congressman Carl Vinson was Nunn's great-uncle. Along with a taste for basketball and politics, Nunn absorbed dignity, calm and concern, and always, from the frequent family tribunes, a "keen sense of America...
...They were all loyal Democrats," remembers Nunn of those political giants. "But they all felt a political party was only a means to the end?a better America...