Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what a lousy job I did," grins McCain, a sassy, prematurely white-haired Navy career man sitting on a soft couch in the glittering Middle American chic of the Marriott's split-level lobby. McCain spent 42 months in solitary confinement, partly because his father, Admiral John McCain, happened to be Navy Commander in Chief for the Pacific. "Until the day I went down, I lived under my father's shadow," McCain explains. "Incarceration relieved me of that burden-he couldn't affect my future there...
Viet Nam's P.O.W.s have survived better as official patriots and readjusted to civilian life more successfully than some of their Korean War predecessors, perhaps because most of them, before the fall, were trained pilots and college-educated military career men. Most agree that their time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments...
...instructor (his doctoral dissertation was The Economic Mind in 18th Century Colonial America), spent 18-hour days grappling with the economic minds of angry 20th century Californians. Also breathing heavily on the legislators was Governor Jerry Brown, whose own plans for dealing with the crisis-and perhaps his political career-were at stake...
Like Carter's other top assistants, Kraft is a total loyalist. "You have career people who are dedicated to the presidency and I admire that," Kraft says...
...does Schlafly reconcile her career with her stay-at-home dogma? "My husband lets me do what I want to do," she says. "I have canceled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much." Besides, she adds, "when I fill out applications, I put down 'mother' as my occupation." She boasts that she breast-fed every one of her six children and later taught each of them how to read. Says she: "I work all the time. I'm organized. I've learned to budget every minute...