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...One could laud the one-term senator's pragmatic wisdom; his repeated warnings that liberalism will not in the gutters if it fails to reconcile the imperatives of business interests and social policy: his attempts to return the Democrats to the cutting edge of policy; his daring, if misguided, endorsement of Sen. John H. Glenn (D-Ohio) in late...
...what qualifications the candidate should have. Harry Truman looked unprepossessing when F.D.R. took him onto the ticket in 1944?a little haberdasher from Missouri paired with a giant of the earth. Truman turned into a good President. Spiro Agnew was regarded as a solid, promising Republican moderate, a one-term Governor of Maryland, when Richard Nixon named him to the ticket...
Second City, natural home of one-term Jane and Al Capone Donahue (Phil) and Banks (Ernie) Clarence Darrow, big attorney Mayor Daley, William Paley The Trib's McCormick, Ebony's Johnson Kup and Hef and Gloria Swanson City that works! No social strife! And at least one man who danced with his wife...
William F. Buckley Jr. has called Lowenstein "the folk-here of the American board-left," but the one-term Congressman was not believed by all who desired change. He was assured, during the civil-rights movement and again in his work against the Vietnam War, by the extremes of the Left as well as Right, for his insistence on working peacefully for reform through democratic institutions. No revolutionary, he repeatedly with student activists not to take up violence as a tactic of protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets...
Both parties fully realize that the prolonged economic hardship has been, and still is, the nation's most important political issue. It cost the G.O.P. the 1982 midterm elections, and threatens to make Reagan a one-term President. Yet the White House has been relatively adroit lately in reducing the Democrats' ability to exploit the issue. The bipartisan compromise on Social Security blunted one Democratic attack. Last week House Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded, in a public statement, that Reagan had "kept his promise" to move promptly on a jobs measure. Thus, despite serious reverses and anemic...