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-.opinion Presidents continues Ten years ago forme resigned from the nati< after the Watergate volvemeni in the scanc lNixon uvea in reciu but that reclusion wa back into the public candidates, making , books. Humiliation hs he continues to be seen So it is with other pi terms and even theii names of U.S. preside mer presidents' famili Twenty years a assassination, the put romances, John-John' adventures, Joan's dr recently, JFK's supp Monroe. The Kennedy name interest in JFK's br< nedy. But the populari other family members Kennedy was presiden n ff i-1 _ - p iviure recently, ioni made a visit to Can Republican in his poli makes headlines by fal His wife Betty is i magazines in which problems and her ad, tomy. Son Steve is millions in his role as serial, "The Young an< Harry Truman has b legend lives on thro daughter, Margaret. Americans nave gri and anxiously scan th( her condition. Margar for her three best-sell; White House," "Mur "Murder in the Supn name sells books, and experience as the pre reader. Then there is the eve former presidents. M:.. ??? i- A i iMx.uii uaiiie lugeuier > and Julie, married. Carter were together of the United States < president Anwar el-Sa But Carter has str pattern of former pres When he left office returned to his home memoirs and live life know of Jimmy Cart Billy has managed to < The public is dying charm of her school Jimmy's inspiration? dark about the Carter; : J 1 l-J x-residents nuiu < Americans. During th criticized, often hate weary of hearing da say. Yet when the p becomes an instant he Presidents constai nrocc Thoir fomilitkc pi VOU. A 11V1I 1U1A1I1IV/0 watchful eye. The habit of keepi limelight long after h broken. Former presi their privacy, too. Bi their images die. Or president is the popi that idea is tiring. Change is possible, By keeping his life \ trend of the mi president. More prej ter's footsteps. After Reagan lei people still talk abou spends on her desigi Grecian Formula Ro out of his hair? ^'popularity m after office , r president Richard Nixon $|j :)n's highest political office trial revealed his inial. Jj sion after his resignation, m s short-lived. He bounced eye, supporting political w appearances and writing isn't kept Nixon down, as i and heard publicly. residents. Long after their : lives have expired, the mts live on. Even the for- \ es stay in the public view. Lfter John Kennedy's )lic still hears of Jackie's s latest Brown University inking problem and, most osed affair with Marilyn also lives on with society's 3ther, Sen. Edward Kenty of Sen. Kennedy and the ; began when the late John t. ler president Gerald Ford iden to support a fellow tical campaign. Ford still lling while he skis. ? nterviewed^ frequently in she discusses her drug li justments to her mastec- \ seen every weekday by Andy on the CBS daytime i the Restless." fo 1 1 /? l a ? f leen aeaa tor years, dui nis ugh his wife, Bess, and G< eved through Bess' illness ne 5 newspapers to read about et is nationally recognized id ing novels, "Murder in the h< der on Capitol Hill" and jme Court." The Truman u her first-hand Washington st sident's daughter sells the * o ir popular reunion between Dwight Eisenhower and when their children, David h Ford, Nixon and Jimmy \\ as official representatives \t the funeral of Egyptian dat. jj uck down the popularity idents. ; in January 1981, Carter e< in Plains, Ga. to write his privately. And that' all we te er. liven Carter's brother nc j A . c 11. t i _^i A n? >iay out 01 me nmengni. ^ to know if Amy is still the , and if Rosalynn is still s, Americans are still in the s. i certain attraction for st eir years in office, they are f ;d men, and people grow U1 ily what presidents do or 111 resident leaves office, he iro. my are covered by tne r are always in the public's ng a public figure in the e is time has past needs to be dents, like neighbors, need r< ut Americans refuse to let ice a president, always a r< liar school of thought, but ni ir and Carter is proving that, jrivate, he is breaking the si ich-talked-about former r iidents may follow in Car- ci ives the presidency, will it how much money Nancy br ler gowns, and how much m mnie uses to keep the gray HHMMHBHHHHHBMUBawnBn Pi ChlC^gplnbo?i? letters Write a let The oninion naep of the dnmomrb _ K I o - ? r the expression of ideas or the dis* pics. 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How can you capture that la tesident likes ditor: I would like to speak out in favor o ?sidence hall from South Building t< Friday's report was very inaccu isidents do call it Patterson Hall ight plotting to deface school prop* ibute to William Patterson in his Hi I prefer tne new name to the un ire it's confusing now. I've gotten ve told people where I live. But 11 lange will alleviate some of the < uilding and South Tower. I hope that in the future the Game oader view of an issue and not inistration's actions which some of i '4 ter is open to all students cussion of interesting and encouraged. The i and editorials on im for the exchange of s to let their voices be 1 on a 65-space line. 0 words and columns nailed in care of the J ussell House, Colum contest, -Niter ac bit of sanity befo Through hilarity. Tl ^ a real need to n e anxiety. 'P ^ The coming festiv If! 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