There is a story about a man who shows his friend through his new house. “This is the living room, here is the dining room. This is the Florida room,” he says, “and that is my wife” and there she is sitting on the love seat just kissing up a storm with another man. And they go on into
In his 1975 book, The Accountability of Power, Walter Mondale described why he had abandoned his campaign for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination in midstream. “I simply did not have the overwhelming desire necessary to do what had to be done to get elected,” he wrote. By 1981 Mondale had put that hesitation aside. He was ready to do
THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO, A SECRET SLUSH FUND nearly ended the public career of Richard M. Nixon. The fund — which contained $18,235 — had been spent to supplement Nixon’s Senate allowances and to advance his national political prospects. Nixon, of course, salvaged his spot as the 1952 Republican vice presidential nominee by making one of the most famous political
Finally, a Sensible Tax Cut
A little more than a year ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to push a diabolically simple plan to give the nation’s faltering economy a much-needed jolt. His proposal: to reduce, in one fell swoop, the tax burden on 132 million low- and middle-income Americans and six million businesses, thereby fueling consumer spending
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