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Over the years, there have been repeated efforts to invest the U.S. government with the cachet of divine authority. "In God We Trust" was first stamped on currency in the 1860s. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance during the McCarthyist 1950s. George Bush campaigned in 1988 to...
The platform applauds President Bush for"leading an education revolution." Education goalsinclude a "GI Bill for Children" which wouldprovide $1000 scholarships to low and middleincome families so that they can choose schoolsfor their children. The platform also supportsvoluntary prayer in schools, along with therecitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
The Clinton camp considers its Campbell rejoinder "simple stuff." True elegance was on display last Wednesday, when Clinton visited New Orleans, the site of Bush's 1988 "Read my lips" pledge. The centerpiece of the G.O.P. strategy is hardly mysterious. Two words, values and trust, symbolize Bush's attempt to...
The convention showed that the activist tie-dyed Democrats who wrested control of the party in 1968 are grown up now with children and mortgages. Middle America, with its ritual and sentiment and well-tended lawns, is less to be derided on Saturday Night Live than emulated. Four years ago...
Israel's Arab neighbors are also struggling to respond. Although no Arab leader from a confrontation state has publicly praised Rabin's pledge to speed negotiations, or accepted his call to an immediate summit, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak invited the Prime Minister to Cairo this week to encourage and...