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In recent decades, the American presidency has assumed an almost sacrosanct aura. It is time to remember that quite literally, and not as a flourish of speech, the sovereign in America is not the President but the people. It is true that the people elect him, which gives him his...
Indeed this book is studded with apparently unwitting absurdities. For example: "This left me with a number of Jewish clients, who were being subjected to even worse persecution than we astrologers." Or, even worse, " 'You must meet Himmler,' Kersten told me. 'You'll like him. He...
The misdeeds of Richard M. Nixon make his the sorriest record of any President in American history. His is not a Presidency of incompetent, unwitting error--Nixon is too smart for that. His is a Presidency of total disregard for law and order and human rights--and Watergate is only...
Quite apart from the sex war, a reader is appalled by the pinched, gray world of office work that the book describes. Korda makes any number of unwitting condescensions toward women. Perhaps the biggest is his final exhortation to men: "Ask women to join us."
That violated the Federal Election Campaign Act, which had become effective the previous month. The law forbids making contributions "in the name of another person." Loeb, 70, insisted he was unaware of the new rules and that "the violation was totally innocent and unwitting," but did not contest the charges...