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...SERIOUS I MEANT POLITICS, THE GOVERNMENT. The Federal Government? I don't think anyone outside Washington thinks of it as serious. The humor in government?especially the way we elect Presidents???is the mother lode. When you're watching a man flip pancakes in New Hampshire while answering questions about Social Security reform, you're watching a funny way to choose the leader of the free world...
Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents???but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...wind rising over the land," he said. "In it can be heard many things, promises, anguish, hopes for the future, echoes of the past, and our most cherished prayer, America, America, God shed his grace on thee." In an insistent litany, he invoked the deeds of past Democratic Presidents???Jackson, Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy and even Lyndon Johnson...
...prejudgments are suspect, in and out of court. In any event, the country has a way of educating its Justices?as well as its Presidents???and the Justices, in their turn, have a way of educating the country. A period of consolidation after a decade of hurried innovation may be, as Nixon believes, best for both court and country...
...Many a corporate chief executive is annoyed by too many vice presidents???but not President Seton Porter of National Distillers. Indeed, President Porter has been hard put to find bright young men who knew anything about the liquor business except consumption. Last week, however, President Porter created two new vice presidencies, one for Arthur W. Loasby, onetime head of old Equitable Trust and chairman of National Distillers' executive committee since 1924; and one for Ross C, Treseder, who knows a lot about drink but not hard drink. Liquor-man Treseder used to be vice president & general manager...