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Obviously stung by the attacks, Carter appeared before the Urban League a day after Jordan's speech and vigorously defended his record, listing a series of Administration-backed proposals to provide blacks with better jobs, medical care and schooling. Afterward, the President reproached Jordan privately for starting the trouble in the first place. At his press conference, Carter said he warned Jordan that "erroneous or demagogic statements" would damage the cause of the nation's poor. Carter added that he did not look on Jordan as a demagogue, but to many commentators he seemed to be saying...
...thing, the Democratic Senators doubtless were reluctant to tackle Carter's close and powerful associate. But other important reasons seem to have been the inconclusiveness of the charges against the budget director and his masterful, good-humored performance in the hearing room. Said one committee member afterward: "It would have been easier for us to go on the attack if he had come up here with a battery of lawyers and a prepared statement. But Lance came alone and barehanded. You've got to respect a guy for that...
...Soon afterward, the high school dropout made philosophy his vocation...
...White House took the hardly subtle hints and asked the group in to last week's meeting. By that time both the Administration and the Jewish leaders wanted the give-and-take, and afterward both considered it successful. With some understatement, Bookbinder observed: "It cannot be said that the Jewish community has not had access to the White House...
...fact, a little dotty, to the delight of their native servant Ibrahim. Constantly being fired by the colonel and rehired by the Memsahib, Ibrahim cherishes Tusker's curses and colorful tirades ("I'll have both their guts for garters!") and repeats them to himself for days afterward. An unabashed Anglophile, he even admires the way his employers age. "The English," he thinks, "once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going to be comfortable in them...