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...daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs. “I sort of imagine I’m going to write and put it off to the last possible moment, maybe late afternoon. Then I mostly don’t get around...
Bachmann, Rep. Michele •interesting coincidence is noted by - "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence" - though interestingness of it is significantly mitigated by the inconvenient fact that the '70s swine flu outbreak occurred under Republican President Gerald Ford...
...formation of an oversight council to combat government corruption and a dramatic assassination attempt. When John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, the President's approval rating jumped as high as 68%, but by the 100-day mark, it had settled back down to about 51%. (Jimmy Carter had clocked in at 64% four years earlier...
...awarded the Senate seat - he holds a 312-vote lead - the Democrats will have a 60-vote Senate majority. That's the magic number it takes to beat back a Republican filibuster and, at least in theory, push through Barack Obama's big-ticket agenda items. Not since Jimmy Carter's days has a President's party had that kind of numerical leverage in the Senate. (Read about the top 10 political defections...
...Carter's era, the Democratic caucus was riven by ideological differences and too disdainful of the President to work with him effectively. Senate associate historian Donald Ritchie says you have to go all the way back to the dawn of F.D.R.'s second term in 1937 to find a President aligned with a filibuster-proof Senate majority that has comparable cohesion and potential to pass significant legislation. "Doing the filibuster at every whim to block us is not [an option], and that makes legislating a lot easier," says New York Democrat Charles Schumer. (See a day-by-day look...