Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over breakfast the next day, Carter tried to mollify O'Neill. "It's just one of those things," said the President. "They [Solomon and Griffin] didn't get along." Exploded O'Neill: "It's the way you did it, in the middle of a scandal...
...fruits of their aggression." On the other side, the Administration applied more pressure than on any foreign issue since the Panama Canal treaties and the Middle East plane deal. Every Senator was reached at least once, and many met personally with Carter. The President had three breakfast meetings devoted to the topic and made scores of personal phone calls to press his cause. And private lobbyists for both sides of the issue were as busy as the White House...
...resonance with his moderation as a Democrat in an area that used to be considered far right. His voting pattern is blurred, but his attention to the home folks is not. When he is campaigning, he stays in people's homes most of the time, relishing the hot breakfast and a chance to listen. He hands out questionnaires, urges his people to "get inyour two cents' worth." He has some 200 junior high kids in the Fithian youth groups. For five hours' work in the Fithian cause they get a blue T shirt with his picture...
...gets up at 4 a.m., puts on his jogging clothes and runs two miles near his apartment in northwest Washington. Then he eats breakfast and heads for his office on Capitol Hill. He returns home as soon as the Senate adjourns, watches TV and is in bed by 8:30. Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, 64, is a lonely and troubled man these days, under heavy pressure from investigations into his tangled finances by the Senate Ethics Committee and the Internal Revenue Service...
...delayed. Then, when the lettuce seeds were finally in the ground, many of them were washed away by subsequent downpours. The price of lettuce on the East Coast rose to a staggering $1 and even more per head. Observes Rancher Willie Chamberlin: "It's a lot like a breakfast table. Sometimes you have a little pancakes left over. Sometimes you have a little syrup left over. The trick is to make it come out even...