Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past four Gerald Ford cover stories. Well-versed in the family hazards of high office, she notes that the demands in a political marriage are increasing all the time. "But none of the stresses are new ones; it's just that the disappearance of the stereotype of the politician's wife makes her problems easier to examine today...
...through the course catalogue for hours at a time, through obscure departments, through graduate-level offerings, through special undergraduate courses. I consulted government friends in Washington, talked with artists in Paris, called up old acquaintances on Wall Street. Like Sammy Glick I missed no opportunities, and like a consummate politician I talked glibly at my course interviews. My tactics paid off, and, honing my tongue and rolling up my sleeves, I prepared to make the seminar scene at Harvard...
...Ford just another devious politician? Particularly among the young, the answer was a disquietingly prevalent yes. NIXON, FORD, ROCKY, THE SAME OLD SHIT, declared the complaint stenciled on an American flag at the University of Wisconsin. The Nixon pardon coming on the same day as Evel Knievel's canyon plunge, declared Wisconsin Student Michael Stiklstad, amounted to "the two biggest rip-offs of the public in one day in the history of the country...
Given this general trend, a politician ambitious for higher office had to do something more than present a fresh and guileless face. He had to find a way to make a distinctive impression, as happened with spectacular results in New York State, where the voters defied the party bosses...
...gubernatorial nomination. Samuels, a millionaire manufacturer with an impressive public service record, was making his fourth try for the Governor's mansion and was so confident of victory that he had chartered a plane for a triumphant tour of the state. But Carey, a hearty, quick witted Irish politician, charged that Samuels, a four-time primary candidate, was "in bed with the bosses" and blitzed his rival with a series of television commercials that artfully plugged his New Deal concern for social welfare and justice. In November, Carey will face Republican Governor Malcolm Wilson, 60, who inherited...