The Right Of A Minority Is So

There Used To Be This Feeling Under Eisenhower And Kennedy And Roosevelt And Truman That Government Was A Solution. Trust In The Presidency Fell Precipitously Under Johnson - Real Lows. And It's Never Come Back. It's A Trend That, If You're Liberal, Is Really Discouraging.

As You Get Older, You Sometimes Feel That It's Harder And Harder To Get Something New And Wonderful To Come Into Your Life.

In A Democracy, Supposedly We Hold Power By What We Do At The Ballot Box, So Therefore The More We Know About Political Power The Better Our Choices Should Be And The Better, In Theory, Our Democracy Should Be.

I Try To Have A Mood Or A Rhythm For A Chapter.

Among The Reasons That You Go Into Journalism, I Suppose, Are Some Rather Idealistic, Even Foolish Reasons. In My Case One Of The Reasons Was I Wanted To Explain How Things Really Work, How Political Power Really Works.