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If rhetorical agility were important to carrying out the functions of a President, then we might do better to scrounge up future candidates from the ranks of criminal lawyers or radio talk-show hosts. Fortunately, most voters give more weight to other qualities that a president must have, such as...
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva."
But last week's presidential debate, watched by at least 80 million television viewers and parsed by scores of journalists, greatly magnified Reagan's rhetorical failings. His hesitation seemed like uncertainty, his digressions like rambling. He suffered by comparison with his opponent, Walter Mondale, who is 17 years...
The hawkish report presented a dilemma for the Administration, which has adopted a more conciliatory rhetorical approach toward the Soviets during the election campaign. Reagan sat on the report for ten months, claiming he had not had time to "study" it. Last week he sent it on to Congress without...
THE SEARCH for moderate solutions to Central America's multiple woes is tricky business, none the easier when the chief protaganists continue to rely on extremist tactics to force maximalist ends. The rhetorical heat rising out of both the United States and Nicaragua of late has only served to obscure...