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Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office???otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...politics of racial fear, partly because judicial decrees have, through reapportionment, distributed voting power more fairly. And with the nomination of Jimmy Carter for President, the politics of frustration?rooted in the knowledge that no Deep South politician, whatever his talents, might reasonably aspire to his nation's highest office???seems to be ending...
Elected by a landslide vote, Carter appeared to be a changed man in office???leading to accusations that he had misled the voters. In his inaugural address, he proclaimed: "The time for racial discrimination is over. No poor rural white or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job or simple justice." Maddox cried foul and started sniping at Carter. He has never stopped. He even pursued Carter to New Hampshire last month to denounce him as "the McGovern of '76" and "the Dr. Jekyll...
...been entrusted to First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who will almost certainly be appointed Premier. True to his reputation as an administrator par excellence, Chou apparently managed even his own passing from the political scene with dexterity. Sinologists expect no power struggle over Teng's assumption of higher office???at least not soon...
Women make up 53% of the nation's registered voters but hold only 5% of the elective positions. Still, the total?7,000 women in elective office???is double five years ago. And in this year's elections, predicts Barbara Jordan, "the candidates will play to women's issues wherever they think it will help them...