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To: LindyBill who wrote (27905)	5/1/2002 10:21:30 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

I should add a "Caveat" to my previous post on where we will differ, John. I really resent the refusal of the left in this country, the ones who have been around since the '60s, to admit that they were wrong about these "Agrarian Reformers" they supported back then. You know, the crowd that supported "Uncle Ho", and thought socialism was the future of the world? Ah, that's better. I thought you were losing your voice. Not so. I am, of course, for a much stronger state role in the economy than you are. My problem has been the inability of the polity to respond to human needs; the fact that it's been hijacked by large business interests (I do mean both parties, the dems only slightly less than the reps). Thus, I'm a big supporter of serious, meaningful campaign finance reform. But that ain't going to happen soon. If ever, at least in my lifetime. Been reading Robert Caro's third volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography series. He's still in the finest of forms. You would think one of the volumes would not be up to his standards. This one is better than the previous two, by far. And that's amazing. I can't put it down; yet try to read slow so I won't finish it too soon. I'm about 300 pages in and we're just getting started A couple of illustrations. He must have 50 pages on Richard Russell, the George Senator who controlled the Senate until Johnson took control. Who else would have that many pages on another significant figure such as Russell in a bio on Johnson? Yet it gets you into who Russell was. Caro has the ability to find stories that open up characters. There is an equally interesting long section on Hubert Humphrey, which I have yet to read here, but read some of it when the portion appeared in The New Yorker some weeks back. If anyone is interested in reading about the real stuff of politics, in a history of the politics of the 50s, in a history of the Sentate, in understanding how the federal govt worked in the 50s, here's the book.