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| Letters | 4 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 7 |
| A Platform for the Nineteen-Eighties | 10 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Cabinet Secretaries: What Do They Do All Day? | 22 |
| Merrill, Amy | |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 29 |
| Inspectors General: The Fraud in Fighting Fraud | 31 |
| Nocera, Joseph | |
| Memo of the Month | 42 |
| New York: The Liberals' Vietnam | 44 |
| Auletta, Ken | |
| The Political Puzzle | 51 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Where to Stay in Washington | 52 |
| How to Steal Government Secrets | 54 |
| Spex, Milt | |
| Who's Who in the Carter Administration | 61 |
| The Merger Mania | 64 |
| Redburn, Tom | |
| Have You Got What it Takes to Write for the Washington Monthly? | 69 |
| Richard Reeves on Political Books | 75 |
| Political Book Notes | 76 |
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