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January 24,1980
Bush worked to win
George Bush has won the Iowa Republican presidential straw poll, and those who make a business of predicting the outcome of elections are astounded. After all, Bush was predicted to finish far behind Ronald Reagan in the race for the title of Mr.Popularity among the title republicans. But Bush won, and the question now is "What does this mean?"
Bush's qualifications make him one of the better candidates the Republicans have to offer. He has been a Congressman from Texas, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, liaison with China and Russia, and executive director of the Agency. And, he is only 55, a plus for those who are concerned about Reagan's age.
But he has not been very well known. A New York Times-CBS news poll released just before the Iowa balloting gave Reagan, the assignee of GOP frontrunner, a 39 percentage point lead over Bush.
Tuesday, Bush had a 6 percent lead over Reagan in the Iowa voting.
But the New York Times poll was taken across the country. The Iowa Republicans who voted for Bush are only a small part of the national electorate. They also are only a small part of the Iowa electorate. But they count that counts the most, and Bush campaigned hard for their support.
Studies show that the people who vote in party caucuses such as those in Iowa are different from the people who vote in general elections. They are usually party leaders or workers at one level or another, and they are the people who care most about the party. They are also the often leaders of local public opinion.
Bush worked hard to contact these lower-level politics. He organized people in each of the many groups of them in small groups during the campaign. And he
made sure they got out to vote Monday.
And being leaders of political opinion, these straw voters can help Bush build support he would need to do well in a general election.
Bush's victory also will be important to him as he campaigns in other states. The national news media have made the enlightened discovery that the Iowa balloting is very important, because of Jimmy Carter's strong early showing there in 1976 and eventual nomination.
Whether the Iowa balloting is important or not, the national media will treat it as if it is, and give Bush a hit more coverage because of his victory. But if the Republican leaders help Bush's chances in the Maine case and the New Hampshire primary.
And a good showing in Maine and New Hampshire would again increase the coverage, which would lead to more support in later campuses. It is difficult, if Bush's hopes are realized and the Carter pattern is followed.
Reagan and his supporters have played down the Iowa balloting, saying that it was merely a straw poll and that Reagan would have won a primary. Reagan did sight low in his campaign, making only a few appearances in the state and refusing to appear in a debate among Republican candidates sponsored by the Des Moines Register.
But you can bet the Reagan people are surprised by the Iowa vote. While Reagan was sitting in California, acting like an incumbent president by limiting his appearances and comments, Bush has been working hard to change the political organization. Maybe it is time for Reagan to get to work.
Percentage points in voter preference polls don't win elections. Contact with the voters does. If Reagan wants to regain his status as the leading Republican candidate, he had better start campaigning.
KU increases rents while ignoring upkeep
To the Editor:
J. J. Wilson needs a lesson in simple mathematics. He can't get the 10 percent does not equal President Carter's guideline of 7 percent. The average of those figure is actually 8 percent.
The two-year average of 6 percent and 20 percent for single occupancy residence hall rooms is even more out of line. The average of 26 percent over two years is 13 percent.
because food often spoils when the refrigerators malfunction.
In addition to this, families in three of the buildings still are having to try to store food in half-sized refrigerators that chronically need repair. This causes the food costs to be higher for those families because they have to purchase food in smaller quantities and
If the refrigerators were replaced by full-size refrigerators that functioned properly, they would be more prone to raise. But to ask them to struggle with heat, it is better to pay higher rent as a addict may in injury.
Or, as one resident put it, "To have to pay a higher amount just to maintain the already bad service is just too much.
Lisa L. Berry Lawrence junior
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Americans demand uncommon leader
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute, execure, and defend the Constitution, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
With these words from Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, one man voluntarily commits himself to the most paradoxical position in the world—the presidency of the United States.
Author James David Barber carets the presidency a "focus of feeling," retrospectively answering John Jay's query, "Shall I be president with 'Yes', and shall he be called President?"
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He is the first political figure American children become aware of. He gets more attention than any other politician and is about the only person who can make news by doing what he good. He and his family are put in that fishbowel called the White House to serve as examples to the expatriate who selected them as their First Family.
The most pervasive paradox of all lies in the extent of power the president is permitted to wield. It is almost inevitable that the feats expected of him will far exceed the expectations and deliberately designed by the Constitution, Congress serves as his main control rod.
Americans want their president to be above politics and the inherent abuses of power they ascribe to politicians. But a president must be a politician—not a businessman or political prosmaster, negotiator and mediator. It is only in this way that he can make his democratic leadership work in his country as well as throughout the world. One of his main functions is to help Americans make sense of politics, both national and international.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall consider; for example, to extend extraordinary Occasions, convene both House, or either of them . . ; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and represent all the Officers of the United States.
Nevertheless, Americans want their president to exercise his power. Historically, pails taken on the heels of presidential actions have shown that the president's
popularity rises as a direct result of those actions, regardless of the severity of failure to take decisive action, he is labeled weak, passive or worse. Yet if he acts too sensitively his actions are described as risky.
In any case, Americans want results. The majority of students will represent the minority as leaders, and will preserve past traditions and catalyze innovative, creative solutions to an urgent problem for America.
Most important, all, the president is the unifying source of public leadership, drawing together the people's hopes and fears for a better future. He must, above all, achieve this—or fail.
Consequently, the president is burdened with trying to meet the demands of the American duties as well as with executing the duties delegated to him by the Constitution. These two sets of responsibilities difficult to fulfill because of the double standards as because of the double standards the president must work with. It is ironic that it is the American
people who impose those double standards and yet ignore them when criticizing the president.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years . . .
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. The President, in States, he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, he shall Power to grant Reprevees and Pardons.
Americans want a common man for president, someone they can identify with, but they also want uncommon leadership from a different kind of leader. "Condition," The E. Cronin points out that this uncommon leader needs the talents and skills of a politician, a sophisticated user of expert advisers and a person who can inspire—hardly the characteristics of a comif we exclude from consideration the incumbents (I'm going to be in enough trouble over this as it is) to their office, I will be their office; they were never elected in their own right (Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur and Ford), and those monarchs who gained the crown over us, namely King George II, Stephen, Henry IV, Edward II, Richard III, Henry VII and William III), then we have, rather neatly I think, 32 seats of state in the United States, and I would include Mary II, of William and Mary, who
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States. He shall also herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law . . .
The ever-present dilemma of the presidency, according to Cronin, is the search for a president who is both a democratic political leader and a conservative. That tend to negate each other; the behavioral instincts of one precluding those of the other.
Therefore if extraordinary sanctity exists, it is needed now more than in the White House, where America's choice man strangely seems to be making his claim of the President of the United States.
Monarchy rides smooth, economical
By JOHN STEELE GORDON
If we were looking for a new automobile, we would certainly compare the possibilities for quality and price and see how they stacked up against the ones we can't do the same when shopping for a head of state, and the results are surprising.
BY JOHN SEELLEEK
NEW YORK
We head to the headline into yet another presidential election, perhaps we should stop a minute and consider whether this expensive, time-consuming process is worth it or even produces superior results to the alternative-hereditary monarchy.
Thirty-eight men have been president of the U.S. Army and the 39th president because a former Cleveland was both the 22nd and the 41st, and 41 have been sovereigns of England since the 18th century.
although a queen regnant and co-sovereign, took her marbling orders from her husband.)
I HAVE DIVIDED each category into three groups—those heads of state who were great, adequate or disastrous with regard to their performance in the institution they temporarily embodied or to themselves (the three principal concerns of someone in supreme power). The criteria are that the person be seriously subjective. No one would seriously argue. I, fancy about Henry I or Lincoln, James II or Herbert Hoover, but most of the rest are subject to respectable criteria.
What, for instance, is Pok up along there among the presidential seraphalis? Well, one-the-other will not be able to win in Pok's one term, that if independent, would now be the world's seventh-largest country. The great seventh American West is American because of Pok.
**WHY IS WILLIAM Henry Harrison—who was president for a month, rated adequately high, did not attend longer than a day at all—a disaster! Harrison certainly wasn't a great president, but he was too sick during his month in office. He was not deaf, he madeFace de faute him, he was adequate. Edward V, however, lost his crown and perished his life when the war ended. A usurper, I submit that any monarch, even
a child, who suffers such a fate is by definition a disaster. Life, after all, isn't fair.
OR. FOR THAT matter, what is Richard I doing up there in his room? I have read reputable Elizabeth; I have read reputable scholars who put him right up there, and I have read reputable scholars who dismisse him as a homosexual man. In this way, the 12th century only for crusading and tournaments (the discourses of the 12th century). Since the 13th century, Richard I turned to the masses, and it is the settled folk wisdom of the English-speaking peoples that Richard Coeur de Lion was a great
Why wasn't George III rated a disaster and why wasn't Jefferson great? When was this event in the history of Britain, was it one of the great powers of Europe. When he died in 1820, having lost America once and his mind several times, the nation would have been a place no reason why George III shouldn't do what every other politician certainly would under the circumstances—take credit for the war.
AS FOR JEFFERSON, I think he was a great—a great thinker, architect, writer, inventor, and man for all seasons. But he was a mediocre president at best (and, as a director, at worst) in Virginia. Jefferson was a certified genius, but that genius was not executive in nature.
In any event, I suspect that after a great
deal of scholarly pushing and shaving, we would end up with a name here and there shifted from one group to another but the same is not always the case in the same, which is the important thing here.
So, of our presidents, six (18.75 percent) were great, 16 (50 percent) adequate and 10 (31.25 percent) were disastrous. Among presidents who had also half as many, we were great, only 11 (34.37 percent) were医iene and 10 (34.37 percent) were disasters—more than three percentage points more to be sure, but less accurate, in the probability of error for so a small sample.
**NOW, IF WE rate each great at *t* and each disaster at *t* -3 and each adequate at 0, monarch wins in a walk at *t* -12 to *t*. If assign each adequate a +1 on the grounds of a lake, then a positive achievement in statecraft, then a negative achievement in statecraft, +8 to +4.
Having a monarchy, then, clearly means fewer visits to the repair shop and longer intervals between major tune-ups. Since it is also much cheaper for guards to guard windows, royal yachts and castles in Scotland cost less than one big-state primary—and turn a pretty tourist penny into the bargain) it should be obvious that monarchy must be the choice of every man.
John Steele Gordon, who works for a public relations firm in New York City, is author of "Overlanding," a book about driving.)
Rodgers lingers as melodic memory
Who was Richard Rodgers? Most of us know him only subconscionably, a little bit of himlingen in each of us, tucked away as a melodic memory.
Richard Rodgers died a few weeks ago, when a generation of composer helped他重新塑造他的音乐 theatre.With his colleagues, Lorenz Hortz and James Carroll composed his way into history and forever changed the music of Broadway with works as "Carousel," "South Pacific," "Pal
Although none of his songs have hit the top 40 in recent years, Rodgers' works are far more influential. He amateur theatre groups and late night television all rely on his music. "Climb Every Mountain" is often played at concerts, but it was not Enchanted Evening? is still one of the most beautiful love songs ever written and performed. "Rarely fails to draw bitterwits tears."
Rodgers' music is part of our lives. His songs, tender, joyful or melancholy, cannot be overlooked. The musicals of music that is "Do Rie Mt." from "The Sound of Music." What Midwesterner can resist the pride and delight in the Plains and South, even though in "Oklahoma!" and "State Fair"?
kate COLUMNIST pound
IN AN ERA of catastrophic war, fading traditions and booming materialism. Rodgers wrote the music and lyrics of musicals that retained innocence and beauty into an alienated perspective, ignoring the complications of modern society.
But simple messages did not mean simple music. Rodgers' composings was inventive and complex. He experimented with a new form of dance called "boundaries" of Asia with waltzes, in "South Pacific" bands, and "The King and I," and used the best of American folk music traditions, in "Oklahoma." to add color and movement.
Rodgers wrote more than 1,000 songs for more than 50 music! plays, movies and revues. He and his painter were the great and the famous *Arseneau*. "Rodgers and Hammerstein dared to end a musical sadly," the King and I" was carefully written to be brought to the stage the richest old Siam.
BUT SHOWMANSHIP is not at the heart of Richard Rodgers' work. His music has a
Rodgers gave us the knee-slapping guitar that brought to life this musical music was a bouncy tonic for the spirit of war-torn America. Today, "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" it beetled in countless songs. "Let's go back."
Rodgers delighted us with the fun of "Getting to Know You," in *The King and Queen*. A great book, there is Nothin' Like a Dame, and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa Meta."
human sense matched by few composers.
Remember the gentle confusion of the mans
voice in a song, or how it pops in it down? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?" In "The Sound of Music"? In that same musical, Rodgers inspired us to write "Sleeping Beauty," in a comfortable, comforted us with "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" in "My Dream." Comforted us with "Voynth of youth" in "Stealing Goose on Seventeenth."
DURING HIS partnership with Hammerstein, Rodgers showed us all the romance and wonder of love in a dozen novels. In "Do I Love You," from "Do I Hear A Walk!" "I Loved You," from "Carousel" and "Young Lovers," from "The King and I."
Richard Rodgers, 1902-1979, musician, writer, showman. A giver of magic and love, he was a pioneer in the art of affection. He gave us music meant to be shared and loved. It was music that crossed barriers of culture and economics to create an audience that would —a theatre of full joy, spirit and wonder.
Turning serious, he writes the haunting "Bali Hai!" a song of aching long, "Edelwesel" expressed love of country, and "Dolphin" brought the magic of the Alps to our lives.
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