An American House of Lords
An American House of Lords Surely on an informal basis it does exist. We know that there is a breed of American men who bring everything they touch to ruin, yet continue to rise in the esteem of...
...The American Spectator says these fellows constitute an American peerage and urges that they be accorded all the rights and privileges of same...
...Although this effort at political obscurity may now be forgotten, our honoree eagerly persists in his lonely self-appointed cause of consigning himself to oblivion by publishing such notable tomes as But What About the People?, and, most recently, A Danger to Democracy...
...For these and many other accomplishments, The American Spectator hereby inducts Terry Sanford into the American House of Lords...
...Early on this prescient politico perceived the threat embodied in Jimmy Carter's run for the presidency and without hesitating careened the single-prop airplane of his political career into the fuselage of the Georgian's juggernaut campaign, alas, causing not a dent...
...This month we salute a man whose skyrocketing career has taken him from the governorship of North Carolina to the presidency of Duke University to the Board of Directors of the Children's TV workshop to a campaign for the presidency...
...We know that there is a breed of American men who bring everything they touch to ruin, yet continue to rise in the esteem of their fellows and in the preferment of an unaccountably grateful nation...
Vol. 14 • July 1981 • No. 7
