Supreme Court, Congress, the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, Common Cause, the IRS, “and the entire cast and crew of Sixty Minutes” all disappeared—and impressed pundits gave their seal of approval, Joseph Kraft having taken the temperature of the electorate and discovering that “the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has the support of the American people in whatever enterprise he chooses to undertake.” The president’s two sons, asked how they would help their father’s reelection, replied, “Lean on a few people and keep our noses clean.”
