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...some sinister Democratic force clipped Reagan's coattails? Apparently not. In a handful of districts, his top-of-the-ticket strength was enough to tip close races to his party. But a presidential candidate's ability to influence the assorted imponderables of personality and local issues in House districts has always been more theoretical than real. When Dwight Eisenhower overwhelmed Adlai Stevenson by more than 9 million votes in 1956, Republicans actually lost two seats in the House. Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide of 49 states and 60.7% of the votes produced a G.O.P. gain of just...
Democrats struggled to find some consolation in the House results. Insisted California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "The Republicans needed a gain of 26 to look good and they didn't get it." Declared House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who faced no opposition: "The voters sent Democrats to Congress as a safety net for the American public." If that was a silver lining in the postelection cloud hanging over the congressional Democrats, it was hardly a cause for great rejoicing. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus
...Oval Office may be the headiest place in America. When the President, sitting in his desk chair at the southern tip of the oval, stares dead ahead to the far wall, he sees The Plant. Anywhere else it would be a robust but unremarkable Swedish ivy. But there on the marble mantelpiece, day after consequential day, it basks in the power and the glory. No matter who has been inaugurated since 1961, The Plant has always stayed...
McPherson's remarks did not appease some Administration critics, who believe that even the increased U.S. aid package is too small for a country with large stores of surplus grain. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Something is very, very wrong. We turn on the news and we see African children starving to death, and we get no explanation whatever of why we Americans are allowing this to happen...
Bravo, Miss Manners! For your good example and constant nagging, you deserve our thanks, perhaps even a tip...