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...some historians have begun to criticize the museum, saying there's too much razzle-dazzle and not enough scholarship. "The rubber Lincolns make him remote, strange and mythological," says Simon, of Southern Illinois University. "They've made him into a vulgar creature, not unlike Ronald McDonald welcoming you to his hamburger place." Counters Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar and co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: "In an era where we battle iPods and MTV for attention, anything that encourages future exploration is good." --By Kristin Kloberdanz
Comic as the scene appeared, the tinny noise and dimmed chamber were depressingly apt metaphors for the goings-on in official Washington. In a spectacle of cross-accusations and intraparty squabbling that was politically bloody even by the capital's standards, legislators and Ronald Reagan finally reached agreement on a budget resolution that set spending targets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Senate and House negotiators worked late into the night, and Reagan, in one spectacular heave, sandbagged the Senate leadership of his own party. Almost no one was happy with the watered-down document that emerged, and everyone...
...Kennedy went down to the White House last week for the swearing in of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He is one of 23 members responsible for the planning of a 1987 celebration. Vice President George Bush, substituting for the convalescing Ronald Reagan, dutifully passed out the standard presidential cuff links. Back on Capitol Hill, Kennedy showed the gift to some of his Democratic colleagues with a wry boast: "I can help you get some of these." The Republican stalwart, Barry Goldwater, caught the irony. "I'll bet," he kidded, "they have line-item veto written...
...political adversaries. Kennedy has lifted anchor and is drifting in lonely but intriguing fashion beyond the old Senate "club" and the Democratic Party's reflexive partisanship. He can be as tough as boiled owls about Reagan's policies ("cold unfairness") but in the same breath admiring of the man ("Ronald Reagan has restored the presidency as a vigorous, purposeful instrument of national leadership...
Having shrugged off a major operation for colon cancer, Ronald Reagan seems to have earned a new wave of public sympathy and support through his patented optimism. In a survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. during the week the President returned to work, Reagan's popularity reached an all-time high.[*] When asked to rate his performance on a l-to-10 scale, 67% put him in the top half, up 6% from May and 17% from his lowest rating, in the summer...