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...unhappiest Democrats these days is Lyndon Johnson, who sits on his Texas ranch recovering from his heart attack, seething in frustration at the turn his party has taken, and perhaps feeling a bit like King Lear. He would love to attend the convention, but refused Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's personal invitation. Johnson knows that his presence there would only open the old party wounds, reminding everyone that he represented what McGovern wants to repudiate. "Lyndon just doesn't carry any weight in the party," says a longtime political associate, "and he knows...
...unhappiest part of the President's school proposals was their sequence. Had he but placed his recommendations for increased aid to needy schools first and the call for a busing moratorium second, we might have felt that it was deprived schoolchildren and their education that he truly cared about. As was, by hitting first hardest on the "evils" of busing, he gave the unmistakable impression that his first concern was votes, not children...
...unhappiest side effect that I see right now is that the emphasis on a woman developing her own creative talents is equated by most casual observers with working outside the home. Many young husbands are actually insisting that their wives work outside the home. The men really like the money, and they can claim a liberal stance...
...women are now employed. When a woman is working, she tends to have a new perception of herself. I see this most egregiously in those women who go to liberal arts colleges, because there the professor takes them seriously, and this gives them big ideas. The unhappiest wives are the liberal arts graduates. The trouble comes from the fact that the institution we call marriage can't hold two full human beings?it was only designed for one and a half...
NATO's unhappiest hour was in 1966, when Charles de Gaulle summarily withdrew his country from military participation in the alliance and evicted NATO from installations in France, including military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau. To a degree, De Gaulle's decision was perhaps an unavoidable product of his own intense nationalistic pride. But his action also reflected the larger problem that NATO has historically been overly dependent upon...