1.   Dole aides believe they can paint the president as soft on crime by hammering his judicial nominees.

2.   One is whether Communists continue to see the president as their leader, or start to feel he has abandoned them.

3.   Democratic leaders seized on the opportunity to portray the president as indecisive.

4.   They lauded the former president as a hero.

5.   Although White House aides resumed contacting congressmen about impeachment Thursday, they now regard a vote against the president as all but inevitable.

6.   Americans are treating their president as a superior being, a superman, to whom man-made rules do not apply.

7.   And it cannot be usefully argued that as an ordinary citizen Jones has a right to privacy unavailable to the president as the holder of high public office.

8.   And Sen. Robert Smith of New Hampshire announced he was leaving the Republican Party and would run for president as an independent.

9.   And the Hollywood community, at least the Democratic part of it, seems to see the president as one of their own.

10.   At moments, the rally seemed like a rock concert, with the presidents as the main act.