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...Kennedy eventually betrayed Sinatra by choosing to stay with the more wholesome Bing Crosby during a visit to California. It was a humiliation that sent Sinatra rightward, into the arms of Nixon, then Reagan, which is where a lot of his audience was going in any case. Years had to pass before he could re-emerge entirely as a lodestar of bipartisan style. "I am," he once said, "a thing of beauty." It was a complicated beauty, but he had a point...
...prestigious D.C. Federal Appeals Court, a traditional waiting room for Supreme Court nominees, which was the position Starr wanted. During six years on the appeals court, Starr was on the more moderate side of a conservative voting bloc that included Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia at its rightward end. He got a reputation as a consensus builder, ruling against affirmative action and busing but strongly supporting the First Amendment, notably in a high-profile decision favoring the Washington Post when it was sued for libel by Mobil chairman William P. Tavoulareas...
...staff's petty political bias leads it to exaggerate the significance of developments at the IOP. If the IOP is working toward restoring political balance to its traditionally left-leaning political outlook, they should be applauded. There is no indication that there has been any recent, radical rightward...
...John F. Kennedy School continues its rightward shift with the appointment of former Republican Senator Alan K. Simpson as the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP). Last spring, the Kennedy School appointed Sheila Burke, the former chief of staff to then-Senator now-citizen Bob Dole, as its executive dean. And it has been bringing in right wing stars, including Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed...
Those seeking Galbraith's opinion of the contemporary rightward shift in economic thinking were rewarded by his analysis at the documentary's conclusion...