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Reminiscing about his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., a noted historian and champion of social and economic history, the younger Schlesinger told a crowd of more than 300 that "doctrinaire social history paradoxically runs the risk of severing history's relationship to society" and "makes history static." He said that his father would have been pleased with the predominance of social historians today, but at the same time never forgot the "indispensibility" of studying wars, politics and diplomacy...
...contradiction in that perception is that the Reagan agenda was dynamic, not static. At its most expansive, when Reagan was still burning at full power, it reached beyond the confines of the traditional Republican minority. Kemp, far more than Bush, attempted to preach a sermon of inclusion aimed at blacks, Hispanics, blue-collar families and other blocs normally considered Democratic property. Partly because of his own failings as a candidate, partly & because he never untangled his jumbled economic theories into a clear line, Kemp was unable to stretch Reagan's populist-tinted conservatism into the future...
...hastily scripted attack on Michael Dukakis. For the first time all day, the national press takes notice; Bush must be so confident that he is looking ahead to the general election. Bush's understated comparison of himself with Dole and Robertson (he again mentions "stability") gets lost in the static...
...radio suddenly spews a stream of static into the blacked-out cab. An agent scouting ahead for a gang of suspected drug smugglers has spotted his quarry. "They are at the edge of the brush," a voice whispers excitedly. "They are moving. I can see the sacks they are carrying...
...define a candidate by tearing a rival down. With Dole and Bush, their very familiarity may breed not contempt but indifference. What better way to distinguish oneself than to take the other fellow down a peg or two? In the end, any real debate can get lost in the static...