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President Carter labels Governor Reagan a warmonger. Lyndon Johnson tried to pin the same accusation on Barry Goldwater in 1964 and won reelection, then sent 600,000 men to Viet Nam. Brian B. Tousley Monterey, Calif.
The staff now seems better organized; it has been strengthened by the rehiring of Deaver and, more recently, Stuart Spencer, which illustrates another side of Reagan. Spencer had helped elect and re-elect Reagan as Governor, but in 1976 he joined Gerald Ford. During that year's California primary...
Jimmy Carter, campaigning in California against "Warmonger" Reagan, almost tripped over himself in his eagerness to declare U.S. neutrality and display his own cool, and then talked tastelessly of trading spare military parts for American hostages held by Iran, a statement inspired politically on the spot.
Britain was ill prepared for conflict. Despite its burgeoning Empire, its army was small-fewer than 320,000 men, most of them already tied down in colonial duties. (France had an army of 4 million.) War was, in fact, totally unnecessary. The British wanted political representation in the Transvaal for...
Exactly which President is this? Why, he is a character in a forthcoming novel, Good as Gold (Simon & Schuster; $12.95), in which Joseph Heller does for Washington, D.C., what he did for the military in Catch-22. This time Heller's hero is Bruce Gold, a Jewish writer from...