Word: politicians
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...because the Texas State Legislature only convenes for six months every two years, Untermeyer says he wanted to lead the study group entitled "Getting There: A Practical Guide to Preparing for a Career in Politics," to make students aware of "exactly what it's like to be a politician. In my own experience, back when the IOP was formed and I took one of the first study groups, I learned what politics was like but not how I, Chase Untermeyer, was going to go from this classroom to the State Legislature of Texas, which I knew I wanted...
...participation in a homosexual incident and failed to curb his chronic drinking, he checked into a hospital for treatment because "it was been to get myself cured than run for reelection." Untermeyer cautions his students that the "all-consuming" demands of political life prevent all but the rarest politician from "having anything resembling a normal family life," and has invited Peter Beilenson '81, son of Congressman Anthony Beilenson (D-Calif.), to supplement the mature testimonials of Wyatt and others...
...group--given that the very purpose of the institution is to expose students to the realities of politics." Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, admits the Institute usually sponsors study groups that examine the nuts and bolts of campaign organization rather than the life of a politician, but called Untermeyer's "great desire to do it" the overriding factor in securing the IOP's go-ahead. "We're here to learn about politics," he says, adding that the group has been very successful...
Indeed, a lot of Democratic party members probably would have preferred that Dixon not run for the Senate--a Washington politician doesn't have that much clout. Not only are Democrats likely to lose the jobs under the secretary of state's office (despite the merit system), they are probably losing one of the few Democrats popular enough statewide to challenge Thompson in 1982. With the party itself weakened by internal squabbling in Chicago between Mayor Jane Byrne and State Sen. Richard Daley, Dixon's timing seems less that stellar...
Miller here presents the central tragedy of Johnson and the war--the master politician, after so many years of being attuned to the subtleties of electoral opinion, suddenly lost touch with the nation's growing disillusionment over the war. Miller throws the MacPherson interview out as if it were one more bit of gossip, just another interview, instead of using it as a focal point to organize some interpretation of Johnson's failures...