Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humid weekday afternoon in Washington. Seven men were sitting in the spare, modern living room of Bob Squier's Capitol Hill town house making tense small talk, eating deli sandwiches, sipping diet sodas and herbal tea. Although the debonair media consultant was the nominal host, the meeting had been called by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's stealth strategist. Morris had been secretly advising the President for six months and had emerged from the shadows only in April. Now Clinton had asked him to assemble the campaign's creative team. But despite Clinton's endorsement, Morris' position inside the White House...
...Kumbaya"-singing intellectuals who spent all their time in meetings. "Aren't you tired of the left-wing circle jerk?" he demanded, insisting on the importance of intellectual liberals consolidating with working-class groups. "The working class knows that you feel superior to them," he admonished, and prescribed a diet of mainstream movies, TV, and country music to get in touch with the concerns of the average American. His tour took him primarily to working-class areas, with the exceptions of the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor and Berkeley, California, and, of course, Cambridge. Acknowledging that he was "preaching...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It is long past time that we recognized the need to put Uncle Sam on a diet...
Toeing the Republican Party line in a largely Democratic and Latino district, Parker will have a tough fight against a charismatic incumbent. But Parker believes adamantly that the future of America is tied to the principle of limiting Federal Government and putting Washington on a "tax diet." This, she says, was the vision the Founding Fathers embodied in the Constitution...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'd hate to see us eat our dessert before we go on a diet...Nobody in the world would like to cut taxes more than me...But we've got to make sure we are operating responsibly...