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...American people, and keep explaining it and explaining it." There was defiance but also a certain frustration in his voice as he said this. The Gods of Wisdom in Washington have determined that Bush is in a trough. His poll numbers are declining. His approval rating is back where it was-in the mid-40s-before it was artificially inflated during the 2004 campaign by the dread prospect that John Kerry might replace him. Social Security reform is widely assumed to be dead. The war in Iraq is stymied and losing public support. There is talk that Bush has squandered...
William Safire, a self-styled "libertarian conservative," is also out of favor at the White House. In a recent column he complained that though he had once been a "lonely Reagan booster," he has been denied any interviews with Reagan because Safire "from time to time was-in Mr. Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them...
...killing of Dr. Herman Tarnower by Jean Harris was-in current parlance-an "upscale" crime. Accordingly, three upscale women were contracted to write books about it. Shana Alexander and Lally Weymouth are journalists with good exposure and better connections. Diana Trilling is a redoubtable essayist whose clear thinking and case-hardened prose have cut through much of the intellectual and political lard of the past 40 years...
...work, of course, largely because Bradley was-in sharp contrast to flamboyant General George S. Patton Jr.-a methodical, textbook commander who shunned flashy or risky tactics. Instead, he trusted meticulous preparation for slow, cautious assaults that held a solid chance of success. When a fellow officer, Major General William B. Kean Jr., expressed a mild worry about the awesome task of planning for the Normandy invasion, Bradley replied: "But, Bill, who in the Army knows more about it than...
...fact that Lady Diana was such an ideal choice to play her magisterial role contributed greatly to what I recall was the giddiness, even the magic, of the occasion. She was beautiful, she was young, and she was-in every sense of the word-fresh. Much was made of her virginity at the time-the very notion having become, by then, something of an antique novelty and perhaps, in some circles, even an embarrassment-and the palace did all it could to keep Lady Diana unspoiled. No interviews. Not too much exposure. But Lady Diana had a mind...