Secret-police files from the former East Germany were exhibited in Berlin, with twenty thousand people in attendance. It gives one hope that someday our children’s children may view unshredded Whitewater files.
He came, he spent, he went. That is the Beltway wiseguy epitaph on the Steve Forbes campaign. But that shows you what wiseguys know. Mr. Forbes ran a campaign of good humor and principle, in the face of ruthless counterattacks from the Dole forces. Ultimately, he focused on a too-narrow range of issues. But his issues—economic optimism and a populist approach to tax cuts—will be essential to GOP victory in November. To make his case, he spent $25 million of his own money, which occasioned much hand-wringing. Another way to look at Forbes’s campaign potlatch is that it costs that much to get neglected ideas through the fog of reporters’ and politicians’ indifference. (Pat Buchanan, the other high-profile outsider, profited from years of television and newspaper commentary.) A clever GOP establishment, having taken Mr. Forbes and Mr. Buchanan to the cleaners, would selectively steal their clothes.
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