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...support this contention. More subtle analysis these days suggests, however, that other forces were at work that would have surfaced with or without the great electronic spectacles. There was an unease over Nixon, and affection for Kennedy was on the rise. Ford was saddled with the collapse of Viet Nam and Nixon's pardon, a burden now viewed as too much for any Republican just then. For months Carter had been his own worst enemy and hardly needed Reagan on the stage to remind Americans why they were disillusioned...
...than in the way he recovered after being shot. Jerry Ford was plagued by rickety football knees, and Jimmy Carter complained early on that he did not have enough energy for all he had to do. He took up jogging to get his vitality back. There were times during Viet Nam and Watergate when both Johnson and Richard Nixon looked to be so burdened by events that they seemed mentally unsteady. None of the above has marred Reagan's years...
Ashe paints his Democratic opponent as a woolly, spendthrift liberal. But the Harvard-educated Gore, 36, a Viet Nam veteran and onetime Nashville Tennessean reporter, is a moderate who currently stresses his conservative side. He opposes federal funding for abortion and supports a balanced budget. For all his advantages, however, he insists he is still "running scared." Having answered positively to questions about the need for a separation of church and state, Gore adds, "I also believe in the separation of the presidential campaign and the race in Tennessee...
...most compelling evidence that CBS must face is its own in-house investigation, which Burt forced it to make public. Ironically, just as the case came to trial, a federal judge threw out most of a precedent-setting earlier case-also involving CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace and a Viet Nam military figure, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert-that had provided the legal basis for opening CBS's private files...
...last week, Burt told Judge Leval that Westmoreland planned to narrow his suit "to make the trial measurably easier." Burt said he will focus primarily on refuting what he claims is CBS's implication that Johnson and the Joint Chiefs had been willfully deceived by the reporting from Viet Nam; Burt then dropped the charge that CBS had libeled Westmoreland by accusing the general of misleading Congress and the public. Boies said that the move showed "the case is beginning to unravel." The trial, which may last as long as four months, is nevertheless expected to reopen old debates...