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Here was the Watergate tragedy encapsuled in a brief telephone conversation. We were heading into what could have become the gravest foreign policy crisis of the Nixon presidency???because it involved a direct confrontation of the superpowers?with a President overwhelmed by his difficulties and with a Congress that had just, in the War Powers Act, restricted authority to use military force...
George Bush has undeniable assets. His recitation of the top Government jobs he has held?in his words, his "fantastic credentials" for the presidency???sometimes bring oohs and ahs from the voters. As a New England aristocrat who moved to Texas and made a fortune in the oil business, he endlessly boasts that he is one candidate who has actually met a payroll. He preaches a bubbly optimism ("I just know we can solve all our problems"). He is a demon campaigner, who started so early that he often tells audiences, accurately, that his race is already two-thirds over...
...know if you would have listened last Thursday night.' He said, 'Mr. President, I hate to answer you, but I promise you I'll listen to you on Sunday night.' " If the people did listen, would it mean that Carter can begin pulling the nation ?and his own presidency???out of its "downhill spin"? Much of the discussion at Camp David focused on the need for changes in Carter's staff, and perhaps in the Cabinet. A reshuffling is coming, White House insiders said last week, but it probably will stop far short of what many summit guests urged...
...perhaps in Kennedy's own. He also has tragically good reasons to fear that he might not live through a race for the White House: even now he probably receives more death threats than any other American political figure except the President. Still he remains powerfully fascinated by the presidency???if not next year, then in 1976 or perhaps some election year beyond. Now 39, he could theoretically be a plausible candidate in elections up to the year...
...course, the style of France's presidency???under Pompidou or anyone else ?must change drastically from De Gaulle's. It is not simply that the general's mantle is too large for any one man to hope to wear. France itself has changed, and the departure of De Gaulle is bound to accelerate not only the pace of change but also the people's realization of the nation they are becoming...