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...politicians. West Virginians, for example, refused a $750 million bond issue backed by Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller for state highway improvement, thus delivering a slap to Rockefeller's well-known presidential aspirations. In Kentucky, voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the state's one-term limit on state officeholders, including the governorship. Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, who has presidential hopes of his own, considered the vote a personal rebuke. Said he: "Government is wasteful and the public doesn't trust it. They were fearful they would have a Governor who would abuse...
While it once seemed that Helms would be a strange, one-term evanescence, he began to attract a following. He was never sniping away just for the citizens of Raleigh and Asheville and Monroe. By his extreme doggedness on one issue or another?busing, feminism, gold, guns, always abortion?he won the esteem of single-minded sects all over the U.S. Says one first-term Senator who understands the effectiveness of that strategy: "Every person in the Senate knows Jesse could unloose that barrage of letters. It makes them think twice...
...Governor, do you think it is time for a President to come into office proclaiming himself a one-term President...
...have thought of it at times, but I do not think it is necessary. The reason is that I am determined to behave as if it's a one-term office. I think that with too many Presidents, in fact with most of them, there is a terrible temptation to think in terms of the next election. This past Administration has been more guilty of that than most. But I will not do that. In California I promised myself that I would make every decision based on the assumption that I would never seek office again...
...affairs, Reagan probably would move more slowly in that sphere. But because he is a suspect stranger in capitals abroad, he would be likely to make some early gestures of reassurance to U.S. allies. One crucial difference between Reagan and most previous Presidents taking office for the first time is that, because of his age, Reagan would start out widely regarded as a one-term Chief Executive. That might have a liberating effect on his behavior and decisionmaking...