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There have been three great Speakers in American history: Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902), Joseph Cannon (1836-1926) and Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). For almost two decades, Rayburn held power in Washington. Presidents came and went: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy. But whoever was President, Sam Rayburn was Speaker. His power over one branch of government was so immense that it spilled over into the other branches...
...that the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia "affects the vital national security interests of the U.S. by maintaining the strength and credibility of NATO and, most important, by stopping the war." That use of the word vital is the heart of the issue and the argument. When officials of the Truman Administration suggested in 1950 that South Korea was not a vital interest, North Korea attacked. It is diplomatic code for an interest a country will go to war over. When President Jimmy Carter declared in 1980 that the Persian Gulf was a "vital interest," he was correctly understood to mean...
...dynamic is almost always the same. In the 1940s Harry Truman, a hero President in today's myth, came onstage as a moral-cultural-intellectual nonentity, the strutty little haberdasher of Independence, Missouri, ridiculously trying to fill the shoes of Franklin Roosevelt, who was of course by that time...
...characters flit on- and offstage like cameos. Here is a good-natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...
...should bomb, bomb, bomb until the Serbs agree to give up all their ill-gotten territorial gains to save their life." TRUMAN HUNTER Oxford, Ohio IT'S ABOUT TIME THE WEST FINALLY acquired a conscience and used force in order to stop the Serb campaign of genocide in Bosnia [COVER STORIES, Sept. 11]. But the Serbs have every reason to believe that the resolve of the West will quickly dissipate. The only chance of bringing them to the bargaining table in earnest is for nato forces to continue air strikes until the Serbs have lost significant military assets. Only then...