Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close to Edward Kennedy on many issues. Mondale's stomach is flat-thanks to tennis-and his face deeply tanned -thanks to a few days of fishing for striped bass off New Jersey. At breakfast last week with TIME editors and political correspondents, the 52-year-old Vice President offered some observations on the campaign. Excerpts...
...breakfast with reporters in McLean the day after the convention, Kennedy slouched in an armchair and sipped coffee in his spacious, beamed living room. Joan strolled into the room and sat at his arm, relaxed and confident. For the first time, he willingly reflected on what had happened to him in the campaign, and what might be his future in politics. Said he: "After the early primaries, we knew the chances of getting the nomination were remote. But programs and issues that we were raising were beginning to take on a life of their own, and I saw them expressed...
...President and his people learned the names of the congressional players and they went through all the traditional routines of breakfast, lunch and massed receptions. Power, however, is a very personal thing. It works on subtlety and nuance. It is in the end a matter of caring. And it is a matter of years and years of listening, thinking and adjusting. The Carter White House never could come to believe in Congress or its odd rituals. The leaders of both houses now stand at arm's distance or worse. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, who will chair...
...idea for the get-together came to Kennedy Strategist Robert Shrum and Anderson Adviser Lawrence Tribe when they met over breakfast in Cambridge, Mass., last week. They agreed that both campaigns needed some kind of jolt. Why not do it jointly? The candidates quickly endorsed the notion...
White House Correspondent Johanna McGeary had a less rewarding assignment as the storm grew and evasive tactics became more common: find Billy. In midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy...