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Article: Mail Call; Sen. John Kerry, 'Reporting for Duty'.(Letter to the Editor)
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- Newsweek
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- August 16, 2004
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Readers trying to size up the presidential candidates said they found our Aug. 2 cover story very helpful. "Thank you for your thoughtful, well-reasoned evaluation of John Kerry," one said. "As one of many disillusioned Republicans, I would rather vote for a serious, cautious politician who is flexible enough to change his mind about important issues than a cowboy with a 19th-century mind-set who is too quick on the trigger and shoots from the hip." Others were unimpressed. " 'In Search of John Kerry'? Good luck! A phantom is hard to find and impossible to define." But some defended the senator: "Where did the notion come from that candidates should be as simple and easy ...