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...major civil rights bills submitted but not passed during the last session: fair juries, fair housing, enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything in the two messages was the tone of expanded economic opportunity and sharper equal-rights legislation, which in all likelihood will be two of the President's main campaign themes...
Austerity Psychology. "Let's get that pencil of yours a little sharper," Mills told Schultze. "I'm the attorney for the taxpayer in this case." The attorney in this case is also the court of last resort for the tax bill...
...Democrats are bringing their audience into sharper definition, and their prime target is the ever-growing group of relatively affluent and educated middle-class citizens. The party is well aware of its weakness here. In October, the Democratic National Committee conducted polls in California, Pennsylvania and New York and found Johnson running well ahead of all the major Republican prospects among voters earning less than $7,000 a year. Citizens in higher income brackets tended to favor the Republican candidates. But much of the middle class is considered to be uncommitted to either party, to swing from election to election...
...Republican Club, in a livelier past, had something more to differentiate itself from the present club than a sharper conservative-liberal ideological split. It had a "machine...
...genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...