Talk:Charles Mathias

Article issues in preparation for FA
Per User:Tom's request, I'm reviewing this article in preparation for a possible featured article candidature. I think it looks mostly ready (though there's bound to be the usual litany of minor fixes requested from reviewers). Issues I'd suggest fixing before nominating it: Overall, though, my guess it would be that it will pass the FAC process. But please don't hold me to that if I'm wrong. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 17:15, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * "He was promoted to Ensign in 1944 and served sea duty in the Pacific Ocean, including the recently-devastated Hiroshima..." Reads that i. the Pacific Ocean includes Hiroshima, and ii. Matthias served sea duty in Hiroshima. Neither of those sounds right.
 * "On two issues, however, Mathias argued to reform Congress and the U.S. tax system to address inflation and corporate price fixing, contrary to Mikulski." This is a little awkward, and also potentially POV: was Mikulski anti-Congressional reform, and anti-addressing inflation and corporate price fixing? That doesn't seem likely.
 * "Mathias remarked that the party leadership was placed "in further isolation, in an extreme—almost fringe—position"." Direct quote should be immediately followed by footnotes.
 * Some of the material in "Legacy" might be better moved to the chronological sections. I think "Legacy" should sum up the candidate's overall record and/or most important accomplishments.  Much of what's in there (Chesapeake Bay, Vietnam Memorial, etc.) now isn't even mentioned in the sections dealing with his actual time in the Senate.
 * The Obama bit should be better integrated. Right now it stands out as one of those things that was clearly added to the article the day after it happened, or something; the actual date that he delivered his endorsement probably isn't important at this point.
 * Reference numbers 48 and 49 need accessdate parameters.

College roommate?
The article as written states that Sen. Brewster, whom Mathias challenged in 1968, was "his college roommate." This article states that Mathias attended Haverford and Yale, while the Brewster article states that Brewster attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins. How could they have been college roommates? JTRH (talk) 22:18, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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 * Senator Mathias attending President Reagan's swearing in.jpg