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...HARRY TRUMAN...
...feeling of serenity, though diluted by a variety of concerns, is part of the foundation of Reagan's political trifecta: his re-election in 1984, his personal recovery from the trough of the Iran-contra scandal and his final vindication at the polls last November. Not since the Roosevelt-Truman era has either party won three consecutive presidential elections. Not even the popular Eisenhower had the pleasure of escorting his designated heir to the Capitol...
Reagan's approach to the political process has stressed appearance more than governance. Never accepting the blame is a cornerpiece of the Reagan political legacy. While the buck always stopped with Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan seems content to feign ignorance and absent-mindedness time and again, letting his hand-picked subordinates resign one after another in disgrace and shame. Politicians in both parties have taken note of this absolute rejection of responsibility and learned...
...became bitter. There are things you can't do anything about when you're taking a buffeting. Something of this is applicable to being Chairman. You can't take the good part and ignore the rest. I find Job's experience useful in surviving in Washington. Harry Truman observed that if you want a loyal friend in Washington, you'd better buy a dog. My wife and I hedge our bets -- we own two dogs...
...would again find itself unable to seize the initiative or provide an imaginative response. Gorbachev's U.N. speech was the most resonant enunciation yet of his "new thinking" in foreign policy, which has the potential to produce the most dramatic historic shift since George Marshall and Harry Truman helped build the Western Alliance as a bulwark of democracy. But as the Soviets play the politics of da -- saying yes to issue after issue raised by the Reagan Administration -- the U.S. seems in peril of letting its wary "not yet" begin to sound like nyet...