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Archive
Why We Already Miss the Gipper
Newsweek, October 2, 1995
- When Steve Forbes announced for president last week, he said Republicans have an “empty feeling” about the ’96 race, and it’s true. They’re poised for victory, it’s a Republican year, they’ve already won the Congress, and yet . . . they’re frustrated.
There is an absence, a lack, ...
A Time to Get Serious
Newsweek, August 24, 1992
- MEMO TO: The President
FROM: Noonan
RE: Your acceptance speech
Mr. President, remember the scene in that movie you liked, “Moonstruck,” in which Cher slugs the very fine and decent but also dispirited Nicolas Cage and says, “Snap out of it!”? That is our text for today.
You are Georg...
Behind Enemy Lines
Newsweek, July 27, 1992
- The veteran political reporter R. W. Apple had the blues. He was sitting in the makeshift New York Times bureau off the convention floor, hunched over his laptop computer, looking the way Tom Wolfe once described Jimmy Breslin—like a bowling ball radiating steam. “These Democrats,” Apple grous...
