| How Ralph Nader, Tricia Nixon, the ABA, and Jamie Whitten Helped Turn the FTC Around | 5 |
| Wellford, Harrison | |
| Cuban Missiles and Kennedy Macho: New Evidence to Dispel the Myth | 14 |
| TIDBITS and ... OUTRAGES | 20 |
| Up the Down Coattails: McGovern and the Congressional Candidates | 21 |
| Rappeport, Michael | |
| THE CULTURE OF BUREAUCRACY: Dumping $2.6 Million on Bakersfield | 23 |
| Aron, Michael | |
| MEMO of the Month | 33 |
| The Political Puzzle | 34 |
| Barclay, John | |
| The President's Asylum: The Secret Service's Preven the De ten tion | 35 |
| Ingram, Timothy H. | |
| An Ulsterman's Irishrman an Arab's Jew | 45 |
| Lessard, Suzannah | |
| Why Presidents Like to Play with Planes Instead of Houses | 56 |
| Fallows, James | |
| POLITICAL BOOK NOTES | 61 |
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