Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Carter gathered 30 Republican Congressmen for breakfast at the White House to praise their emphasis on fiscal restraint and control of the bureaucracy, "the two issues that led to my election." He thanked them for backing "the guts" of his legislative program-and conceded that he "could not have prevailed without Republican support." The breakfast turned out to be more than a gesture of appreciation. The tributes had hardly ended before Carter was lobbying the G.O.P. Congressmen for support of his energy program, which comes up for a House vote this week...
Henry Kissinger is tough to take before breakfast. Not surprising, really: bad news is most unsettling to an empty stomach, and, as millions of Americans will likely agree, Henry Kissinger is bad news. That's undoubtedly why so many millions of Americans, myself included, will read only the sports page before breakfast. Without Henry, the scrambled eggs sit so much more easily. And everybody knows that Henry never pops up on the sports page...
Until recently, that is. Last week, right between the orange juice and the Mather House yolkless specials, just as I was mulling over Ernie Roberts's latest bit of culinary trivia ("Don Zimmer's favorite breakfast: Rustoleum and a large portion of crow"), I turned the page and there they were. Right next to the boxscores. Henry and a soccer ball...
...Breakfast was already a losing proposition, so I read on. Henry, it seemed, had genuinely found a place for himself in the American Sporting life: with the North American Soccer League (NASL) casting around for a Big Name to sit in its front office, the former Secretary of State was the perfect choice to become its chairman of the board. Henry had all the credentials of your typical American sportsman: a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, several books on the history and theory of international relations, a Nobel Peace Prize and a startling resemblance to a clean-shaven John Belushi...
...matter what happens, though, one thing seems certain. With Henry and his friends around, breakfast will never be the same again...