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When Did You Stop Wanting to Be President?

An unscientific poll of interested parties Ronald Reagan I never started. Now, more than ever, I believe the job must “seek the man.” Aspiration to the Presidency is the stuff of…

Rulers v. reality

by Art Buchwald, Vermont Royster, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Peregrine Worsthorne, Victor Gold, Karl Hess, Eugene J. McCarthy, Michael Novak, Theodore C. Sorensen,

No loitering

by Hendrik Hertzberg,

Reflections on a course in ethics

by Studs Terkel, William Sloane Coffin,

Cryptic bulletin from American interior

by Warren L. Basset,

A Way Out for Richard Nixon

by Harper’s Staff,

Optimists argue that Watergate has ended the national trance under which American Presidents acquired something close to the divine right of kings. According to this view, the fall of the…