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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driving north on Rte. 93 out of Boston, pushing the accelerator to the floor and trying not to lose the maroon Fairmont station wagon. There is a bumper sticker in the middle of the rear window of the Fairmont--"Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senate." In the car is Cecil Andrus, former governor of Idaho and current Secretary of the Interior, who has come to Massachusetts to endorse Tsongas. They have traded compliments about their concern for energy and the environment. Tsongas' driver is doing a steady 75. "As a member of the Select Ad-Hoc Committee on Energy, [Paul] introduced...
There is a difference in styles--Tsongas knows what is going on. In the car, he is pointing out the sites to Andrus. On the walking tour, it is Tsongas who knows who lives where, who is remodeling what building and how much is being spent on the canal. He gives the entourage directions to the fundraiser. This is to be expected, of course, but it is very much his attitude. Slightly anxious, always looking like he's ready to run and always: "Let's talk about the facts." Tsongas had done his homework...
...first childabuse report is also a touchy, and often a profoundly harrowing, moment. The worker is instructed to be cordial, helpful, as direct as possible. And never to show anger - which is likely to destroy any chance there is of parental cooperation. "I used to sit in the car a few minutes before going in, psyching myself, making a deliberate effort to be calm," Belisle recalls. "But I almost ruined one case by blowing my top." That was when he entered the house to discover that the parents had tied a baby hand and foot to a bedpost...
Fraser said free trade in the auto industry did not worry him. "American Auto companies have refused to compete in that market (for small cars). I refuse to believe the German and Japanese workers can produce a better car than...
Fraser said he thought the labor movement belonged in the "vanguard" of society. He alluded to a Harris poll in which "labor finished just above the used car salsesman," in terms of public trust...