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...Wattenberg, who write on political moods, felt vindicated since they have said for years America was never as down as others insisted. "This country listened to Jerry Rubin too long," said Scammon. "We heard from the mass of America on July 4. They have always been this way." And Wallenberg: "All we had to do was to make it O.K. again to say, 'America is a great country...
...L.B.J. cuff links still worn by those aging and jowly warriors of the New Frontier and Great Society. Ruddy and smiling John McLaughlin, the former Jesuit who defended the Nixon Administration's soul, rubbed elbows with presidential aides from other years, such as James Rowe (F.D.R.), Ben Wallenberg (L.B.J.) and Bob Amory...
...Wallenberg, the Democralic analyst and author, says Ford is "an honest Richard Nixon." His point is that Nixon's policies were immensely popular, as judged by e 1972 election, and Ford has added to them a personal rectitude. After watching Ford, his wife, his daughter and his dog on television, Wallenberg sighed, "How do you fault a full-time honest President who is married to the First Lady, father of the First Daughter and master of the First...
Such relentless optimism provides ready ammunition to those who would prefer to gloss over genuine problems. Statistics documenting what Wallenberg, in a dreadful stylislic lapse, calls the "deeliticization of American higher education," say nothing about the quality of life on campus. Nor does the claim that aimless retirement or a dreary nursing 'home are belter for the elderly than "dying in the traces" provide much comfort for hungry old people languishing on park benches...
...Because Wallenberg believes that the good news in America has been so consistently understated, he overstales his case. He is not trying to be fair, he is trying to be remedial, by examining thal part of the glass that is full, rather than the portion that is empty. It is a perspective that doubtless will be widely welcomed. Wallenberg is of course right when he warns that "for a jittery, unconfident America to throw in its hand would be a global tragedy." But the formulalion is a straw man: he does not think for a minute that this will happen...