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To: Edwarda who wrote (59181)	10/15/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 108807

<<Thanks for the thought, but I'll be nursing my uncle again.>> That sounds like less fun than last week when you got 5 easy pieces.

To: Edwarda who wrote (59181)	10/16/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Edwarda, In an interesting aside, on PBS's Charlie Rose show Thursday night cerebral actor (i.e., not a Beatty or a Baldwin) John Malkovich noted that Reagan was President and that Clinton, though bright, just cannot pull it off. He stated that Clinton is just not believable being a leader. Rose agreed immediately (and with surprising enthusiasm) and then went on to say that he didn't think that Clinton was even a good speaker. The discussion went on to discuss how Morris found this great leader, Reagan, so different in private. Rose and Malkovich both agreed that they know many renown figures - "greats' in their fields - who are not privately entertaining. btw, as for Christopher Lehmann-Haupt being a left winger or not, his review of Robert Caro's award-winning LBJ biography, Means of Ascent is illustrative. The meat of the book is where Caro describes in deep detail how a corrupt and racist LBJ stole the 1948 election from former Gov Coke Stevenson, the most popular and incorruptible man in Texas. Lehmann-Haupt descibes Caro's history of stealing that election with this phrase: "And it is thrilling because you find yourself, against all better judgment, rooting for Johnson.... " I'd say that sums up the Lehmann-Haupt view of the world. Read the book - you can't have that reaction unless you are, in my opinion, an extreme left winger. How else can you root for the villain? Make no mistake, Caro shows LBJ to be a villain - a left wing one. To see Stevenson, his ideals and democracy lose to LBJ and his corrupt machine - with the desecration of the system of justice being the final straw - could only make normal, decent people cry. I'm sure the biographer would agree. Let others see if they agree.