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Agnew sets his novel in 1983. The Democrats are in office, second-term President Walter Hurly is vying with Vice President Porter Canfield over important foreign policy matters. Canfield is seeking his party's nomination and to gain the spotlight he stumps around the country on the off-year-election circuit saying the U.S. should give Israel nuclear weapons. This posture threatens to ruin the latest round of SALT talks; nevertheless, Canfield won't follow lame-duck Hurly's orders to lay off the Israel stuff. The press--which under the appellation of 'Operation Torchlight' is secretly conspiring to boost...
...Coyle and Jackie Cogan of the earlier novels. The crime novels never showed the big bosses; A City on a Hill never directly presents the man Cavanaugh's boss wants to make president. Keeping within his narrow limits, Higgins manages to smooth his way past the improbability of a second-term Cape-Cod congressman's launching a serious, self-confident ("get me a president, goddamit") drive to be kingmaker...
...Aspin, 35, went to Congress armed with an M.I.T. doctorate in economics and two years in the Office of Systems Analysis in Robert McNamara's Defense Department. The second-term Democrat from Wisconsin has waged an all-out war on military waste and cost overruns. He helped expose ballooning costs at Litton Industries' naval shipbuilding yards and mechanical troubles with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. Aspin also led the move that cut $1 billion from last year's Defense authorization and shot down flight pay for admirals and generals whose active flying days are behind...
...their familiarity, several cuts above the ones that have been dropped. They may be able to save him from his worst impulses, so assiduously encouraged by the departed palace guard. Optimists are talking about Nixon's "third term" now that Watergate has demolished so many of his second-term plans...
Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst '47 will remain in President Nixon's second-term cabinet despite major changes in the top ranks of the Justice Department, the White House announced Saturday...