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...well-known Republicans, ten of whom turned out to be nondrinking Mormons. Valiantly the hostess tried to disguise the situation by serving the teetotalers Vichy water instead of the first wine, Evian water instead of the second and ginger ale instead of champagne. But it was wasted effort. "A drag," reported one of the drinkers afterward...
...seems at first glance to make more sense. If the reports were made public, "personal reputations would be unjustly damaged." The statement implies that lengthy portions of the confidential reports are character evaluations of individual DAS advisors or their host colleagues, and that release of the reports would unnecessarily drag purely private matters into the public domain...
...said, turned to the economic issue: "This was our low point." That was what sent him off to the hustings. (He called the Democrats' subsequent use of unemployment statistics "a lie.") His staff advised against campaigning, but Nixon felt he had to do battle against the "off-year drag" and the "economic drag...
...Governors, lost the two biggest with Republican Governors.* The Governors cannot produce votes for a President-only a machine can. The only machine left is Daley's-and we'll see if we can't offset that with the Ogilvie machine. Sometimes Governors can be a drag in a presidential election. When it's your Governor, they need roads and all kinds of things and then you have to get involved in it. No. Governors by and large in this day and age do not play an important role in presidential politics...
...able to express her feelings freely for the first time in years. Carl, unaware of his pent-up anger, which Sylvia and several group members had sensed, was asked to walk around the circle, stopping in front of each of us and making a hostile remark. Sylvia had to drag his first statement from him. But his anger quickly accelerated as he made his rounds. "Why in the hell do you wear those stupid religious earrings?" he asked Barbara. "Stop being a clam," he yelled at Bob, "you're letting the rest of us down." When it was over...