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...terms of personal desire or aspiration," he said on a recent television show, "but I'm quite willing to be President." He hints that one term might satisfy him: "If you can't do it in four, you can't do it in eight." He is something of a Whig as far as the powers of the Presidency are concerned. He frequently deplores executive encroachments on congressional powers. The Presidency, he says, is not an "incarnation of all of the hopes and the aspirations of the country. I think that is to put too much of a burden...
...Latitudinarians. At one end of the presidential spectrum are the men whom New York University Political Scientist Louis Koenig calls the "literalists": those who, like Madison and Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...
Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year...
...those who find the press coverage of Viet Nam-whether from Hanoi or Washington, Moscow or Saigon-to be biased, polemical, inaccurate or incendiary, this volume will prove a purgative historical point. Compiled in 1860 from the pages of Tory, Whig and British newspapers and out of print for nearly 100 years, it is a clip-book of reportage and editorials written during America's own, distinctly pre-Maoist "war for national liberation...
...formal geometry, patterns proliferated with a folkloric poetry all their own: Triple Irish Chain, Windmill, Wild-Goose Chase, Princess Feather, the Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate God's perfection...