Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desk at 7:15. He meets and confers and testifies until 9 p.m., running in a spare secretary to keep the paper flowing. He jogs on the Mall to keep the blood going. He breakfasts three times a week with Congressmen, goes eyeball to eyeball with every committee member who is important. His good humor and tolerance are legendary...
...Optimism in the first degree. Despite his lust for Washington's power, he was an outsider in the true sense of the world. Oblivious to elitist protocol and disdainful of pork-barrel politics, he innocently seemed to believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable of making the tough choices Carter...
...long unresponsive to the needs of the urban poor, particularly blacks, and he has demonstrated a strange sense of loyalty by his actions in the Lance and Marsden affairs. Yet the good has far outweighed the bad. Half-assed answers are not necessarily better than no solution at all. Congressmen and the nation's economic elite their help in solving the biggest problems of the decade. Carter realizes this, and despite his efforts to resist the traditional inertia of national politics, he is getting pressure from all sides to be sensible, compromise and hold hands with the corrupt...
...most unorganized, disgusting thing I've ever been in." But he added, "It still works." It worked in the sense that, despite the lack of organization, tractor-drivers were able to block traffic with the help of sympathetic truckers, and farmers were able to overflow conferences arranged with Congressmen and Department of Agriculture officials...
...right?" Of the seven committee members who questioned the plan, only Democrat Harold E. Ford of Tennessee supported the cut, and even he forced Blumenthal to admit that one result would be the loss of some 50,000 to 70,000 restaurant jobs. When the hearing ended, the Congressmen left no doubt that if anyone restricts the three-martini lunch, it will not be Congress...