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...Nancy Reagan. So far, Clinton has resisted naming a Shirley Temple Black as an ambassador or an Arnold Schwarzenegger to a presidential commission. But he needs to prove that Roger Clinton got all the rock-star genes in the family and that he intends to govern more like Harry Truman than Oprah Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber chair, not a traffic...
Such expansiveness led Kennedy into Vietnam. And that led liberals not just to desert the Vietnam adventure, but to desert the very vision of American internationalism that Kennedy, and Democrats from Harry Truman to Hubert Humphrey, had championed...
...maybe a little bit more, because I'm not off at my law office. Chelsea was off on a school trip, so Bill and I decided to have dinner outside on the Truman Balcony. All the cares of the day -- I could just feel them ebbing away, sitting out there looking at the beautiful spring. The air is so ; soft. Everything is blooming. Bill and I have just been wandering around here in this dazed spring fever...
Furthermore, asserting that the ban is justified because many individuals in the military "are often intolerant of those unlike themselves" and are prone to violence is punishing the innocent and validating the offensive. Arguments of this nature are reminiscent of those during the 1940s before Truman integrated the military. If there is a problem in the military, then it lies with the violent and intolerant. Allowing their hatred to flourish is the worst crime...
...John Burns of the New York Times, who shared an international reporting prize for their dispatches from Bosnia. Burns was not on the list of finalists, and there were allegations that the Times applied last-minute pressure to the Pulitzer jury. David McCullough won the biography prize for Truman, the book that triggered the "I'm Truman . . . No, I'm Truman" cross talk during last year's presidential campaign. A surprise came with an award to Robert Olen Butler for his short-story collection seen through the eyes of exiled Vietnamese, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. And playwright...