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...matter of pure logic, what the war wimps did (or, rather, didn't do) two decades ago says nothing about the merits of aid to the Nicaraguan contras or Star Wars or other issues today. But it does say something important about a person's character if he hasn't lived his life in accordance with his professed values. And it obviously tests his commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren...
...matter of war and peace, voters are especially entitled to feel that leaders have lived their beliefs. War has always been a matter of old men sending young men off to die. Sometimes that's necessary. But who wants to entrust that crucial decision to a person who, when young, apparently thought it was necessary for others to go but not for himself...
...Huntington, Quayle admitted, "I ((did)) what any normal person would do at that age. You call home. You call home to Mother and Father and say, 'I'd like to get into the National Guard.' " The only difference was that Quayle's parents were not quite Ma and Pa Kettle. His mother Corinne is the daughter of Eugene Pulliam, a conservative Hoosier press lord who dominated the state as the publisher of the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star. The managing editor of the News was then Wendell Phillippi, a retired major general who had commanded the Indiana Guard. According...
...cultivated private relationships with Zia, however, came away with another impression -- that of a soft-spoken, self-effacing, often charming man who viewed himself as a servant of the people. "I really have been a reluctant ruler," he told a group of reporters recently. "But I am not a person to just give up in disgust and walk away. I am determined to stay here until I solve all of the many problems that continue to face our country...
Bush. What facts are wrong? I say I'm satisfied with the facts. Now what's wrong? If you jump to the conclusion that something is wrong, then maybe you can criticize a person finding the facts. I'm not going to criticize either one of them...