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...first task: building a carport to shelter his newly purchased Honda Civic...
...aimed his Ford Escort under an arch of flashing red lights and into the "Nude Drive-Thru Lane," stopping at a booth where a sign says the show is $5 a minute. Diskin handed over a twenty and was waved ahead to a 6-ft. window under a carport. "I love America," he said, and that was before a curtain opened and a 21-year-old flower named Daisy stood behind the glass in a blue-sequined miniskirt. One minute into her act, she wore nothing but a tattoo of a daisy...
...always: We the Republicans represent your family values and the other guys don't. You know, I was looking at my wife and child and Al Gore's family up there today and thinking that we were not without family values. I was sitting out there under that carport with my 87-year-old great-uncle the other day, who did so much to raise me when I was a kid, and thinking that we were not without family values. The clear implication is Clinton, Cuomo, all these guys, they are in a cultural elite and they don't really...
...running feud with the press herd had already been revived the week before, when he and Actress Tatum O'Neal were married in Oyster Bay, N.Y. McEnroe spit at a photographer a couple of days before the wedding and slipped into the church through dark curtains draped over the carport entrance. Give him points for trying, however. After the ceremony McEnroe and his wife waved, smiled and kissed for the crowds outside the church...
...money. Of $800,000 Carter received for his transition, he returned $128,000. Ford regularly gives back $12,000 to $14,000 a year in expenses. When Nixon moved from Manhattan to a house in Saddle River, N.J., he spent $50,000 of his own money to convert a carport into a Secret Service command post. Ford Aide Robert Barrett defends the federal allowances. Says he: "It's the only reasonable way to deal with what former Presidents have to deal with." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington