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There are indeed signs that New Hampshire Republicans are warming to the outsider, whose supporters are spreading the word that "Romney's right." On the stump, Romney does nothing to belie his slogan's perfervid moralizing by stressing the need to discipline children and hold families together. "There didn't used to be the cynicism there is today," sighed Romney at a Plaistow kaffeeklatsch...
...campaign should be a spectacle to behold. If there is one thing that Lyndon Johnson enjoys as much as being President, it is running for President. On the stump, he enjoys a signal advantage his unparalleled record of domestic legislation...
...wrote Stanford's Bailey in Presidential Greatness. "They were eloquent with pen, as Jefferson was; or with tongue, as Franklin Roosevelt was; or with both, as Wilson and Lincoln were." Johnson is eloquent with neither. Harry Truman helped overcome a similar deficiency with a roof-raising style on the stump, Dwight Eisenhower with an avuncular manner that inspired confidence and trust. Johnson's official verbiage tends to be dull, and though he can be pungent and forceful in private, his public charisma is just about nil. He doesn't always look entirely "sincere," and he can't always. His effectiveness...
...Bunnies kicked off, and on the first play from scrimmage, the ball was jarred loose from the Yale runner and Leverett Captain Ed Stump recovered. With still enough time to even the score and go ahead, Leverett fumbled the ball back to their opponents two plays later. The Elis ran the clock out to save their...
...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...