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...London is in the midst of a renaissance, that its theater is "in a second Elizabethan era." Nonsense. While it may be the world's pleasure capital, London smacks more of Las Vegas desperation than of Renaissance gusto. Compare the solitary John Osborne with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Webster. The contrast is humbling...
Characteristically, his office in Quincy House is spartanly furnished: there are a few modern chairs and a grey metal desk, strewn with pamphlets on archeology and a tattered copy of Webster's. A framed map of Harvard is on the wall behind...
...critics were Henry Clay and Daniel Webster; the President thus chastised was Andrew Jackson. Throughout U.S. history, the Senate and the Chief Executive have stood in a special relationship, which, at its best, has been a form of creative tension. At times the tension was relaxed to the point of subservience by the White House to the Hill and, occasionally, vice versa; at other times it was heightened into open, relentless hostility. To date, no Senator has publicly used Webster's sort of language about Lyndon Johnson, although Johnson seems to have considerably more than 100 hands. Still...
...pettiest of men. They early established the tradition that any Senator, with only minimal procedural exceptions, can rise at any time to speak on any subject, and from this right evolved the Senate's unique place as the arena where a minority can make itself heard. Said Daniel Webster: "This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence, who know no master and acknowledge no dictation." As for the President, Connecticut's Roger Sherman described "the executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will...
...Republic that the real power lay in the House of Representatives. But after the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the struggle to hold the Union together gave new importance to the Senate as the forum of national debate, and it found its highest prestige in this time of great orators: Webster, Clay and Calhoun. These men served so long that, in their perspective, Presidents came and went, but the Senate continued. When Andrew Jackson, an outsider who swept into office with the first genuine popular vote, ventured to object to a Senate action, the body replied stonily: "The President...