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...massed in a nearby park in the chill air. Condolences filled talk radio. An officeholder since 1960, when he was 26, Carnahan was a beloved two-term Governor. A self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes as well. Al Gore's shot at carrying this battleground state is weakened now. So are the Democrats' chances of taking control of the Senate. Ironically, they had that...
...meaning of another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, centered first upon great depression, and then upon world war. The war in Vietnam destroyed the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon (his Watergate schemes having been cooked up to counter the antiwar movement.) The Cold War dominated American politics from Truman to Reagan...
DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
...massed in a nearby park in the chill air. Condolences filled talk radio. An officeholder since 1960, when he was 26, Carnahan was a beloved two-term Governor. A self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes. Al Gore's shot at carrying this battleground state is weakened now. So are the Democrats' chances of taking control of the Senate. Ironically, they had that opportunity only...
...even if the two candidates' foreign policy résumés seem not to matter on the stump, doesn't experience determine a president's success as commander in chief? Not necessarily. Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan were considered foreign policy neophytes before they took office, and both proved to be resolute world leaders. Even Bill Clinton - who in 1992 practically boasted about his lack of interest in international affairs - turned into an unapologetic globalist, visiting more countries than any other president in history...