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...Whoever wins power at the polls must shift gears to guide this nation. The transition from politics to governing gets more difficult with each election. We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. A President must level, yield and plead. He must take action and then assume responsibility. The army of technocrats who run campaigns doesn't want to give up the raucous joy of the hustings. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat...
...Government income and expenditures could be balanced by 1989. The CEOs applauded politely, but not all were convinced that the deficit could be trimmed without tax hikes. "I don't see sufficient growth in the cards," warned Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell. Still, council members were generally confident that whoever wins next month's presidential election will confront the budget problem headon. Said Hawley: "My sense is that it's not a partisan issue and will be tackled by whoever gets elected...
...attack Reagan personally. "I respect the President, I respect the Presidency, and I think he knows that," Mondale said. But when Reagan repeated a line he had used with devastating effect on Jimmy Carter in 1980-"There you go again"-to knock down Mondale's claim that whoever won the election would have to raise taxes, Mondale was ready with a pointed comeback. He reminded the President that he had said "There you go again" after Carter charged that Reagan planned to cut Medicare, and that after Reagan was elected he had tried to cut Medicare by $20 billion...
...Whoever is elected, the future direction of the court cannot be predicted with certainty. Justices have been known to rudely surprise the President who appointed them. Theodore Roosevelt, for example, expected Oliver Wendell Holmes to uphold his trust-busting legislation. When Holmes disappointed him, Roosevelt exclaimed, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that!" Dwight Eisenhower had no reason to think that Warren and Brennan would turn out to be flaming liberals; Ike later regretted Warren's appointment as his worst mistake. "People change on the court," says Dennis Hutchinson of the University...
Such painless prosperity has obvious political appeal, but Reagan may not be able to finesse the deficit issue forever. Mondale is continuing the attack he began at the Democratic Convention, where he charged that Reagan has a secret plan to raise taxes. As he declared in Wisconsin last week, "Whoever is elected, this budget must be squeezed and revenues restored. But the question is: Will it be done fairly? The question is: Who will...