Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They" were Jimmy Carter and the members of his new Administration, all freshly sworn in and now making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...
Firing back good-naturedly, Jimmy reminded the Congressmen that "we were all fuzzy on the issues," but conceded that as a presidential candidate he had had "a much broader range of issues on which to be fuzzy." At the end of the evening, as he strolled out in the chill night air, the new President from Plains told some applauding bystanders at the hotel door, "Have fun in Washington...
...West Wing, offices were piled high with boxes-more than 100 cartons in the Situation Room alone-but Ford tried to give the appearance of carrying on business as usual. On his last full day in power, he telephoned Senators, Congressmen, old friends and several foreign leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...like to see a four-year term for Congressmen. I think it would be better for them and for the Executive Branch if they weren't running again as soon as they were elected. I would like to see constructive oversight by a fairly small group of congressional committees. I made 63 appearances on the Hill in '75 and '76, which is a record for commissioners of Internal Revenue...
...take four steps forward and only 3½ steps backward, and the tax system has been improved. I think there was some substance to some of the allegations about the use of tax information for political purposes in the past. I think that now Presidents, Cabinet members, Senators and Congressmen are treated like other taxpayers and will continue to be treated as such...