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Bundy, an ex-law student, led his own defense, occasionally cross-examining witnesses and raising legal points in a futile attempt to keep the prosecution from using its most incriminating evidence. But he left the closing argument to Defense Attorney Margaret Good. She attacked the case against him as "flimsy...
The season had begun to feel like the summer of 1914, the world's prospects suddenly darkening. The industrial West read OPEC'S price lists and had premonitions of its own decline. Jimmy Carter conceded that a recession was settling in; more apocalyptic imaginations foretold worldwide depression. In the U.S...
The judgment was unfair, in one sense. The problem of leadership in the U.S. goes far beyond the Oval Office, stultifying progress at every level of American society. But Carter was the man at the top, where he had so desperately wanted to be, and Americans were blaming him now...
All of the President's frantic exertions since then have represented, among other things, an implicit confession of his own failures as a leader. He seems to have grasped the shortcomings of the Carter Administration as clearly as anyone, although the methods he has used to correct them have seemed...
(2 of 10) time since World War II, the occasion has called for leadership. It was said of Napoleon that he "could look upon a battle scene of unimaginable disorder and see its coherence for his own advantage." In the first 30 months of his presidency, Carter has appeared able...