According to our trusty calculator, the pains are coming harder and faster. Mr. Carter started by revitalizing the economy only every eight or nine months. Now he’s revitalizing every three months. Predictably, the next revitalization will hit about mid-October, and it’s going to be a doozy. You read it here first.
People’s choice John Anderson has chosen Lucy something—hold it: that’s Patrick Joseph Lucey—to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. The former Wisconsin governor, a lifelong liberal, will give the ticket balance by being wrong on those issues on which Anderson contrives to be right. Lucey favors abortion (though not personally) and two of his brothers are Jesuits. He denies that he regards the nomination as a stepping-stone to American Express commercials, and thinks William Miller has cheapened the office of Former Vice Presidential Candidate. A millionaire and Peugeot driver, Lucey thinks he can help Anderson land the labor vote. A former ambassador to Mexico, he drew what the New York Times delicately calls a “mixed reaction” in that post: “He did not know Spanish, which served to isolate him from Mexicans who did not know English.” (That’ll do it.) Besides which, he was apparently not on speaking terms with many speakers of his native language. Anyway, Keke likes him.
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