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...long drive to get their man elected President, William Hamilton Jordan, 32, and Joseph Lester Powell Jr., 33, broke most of the rules of politics. Now that Jimmy Carter has reached the White House, the two young men -just call 'em Ham and Jody-are still breaking the rules...
...most ridiculous aspects of modern society," says Powell, "is the idea that everybody ought to inflict his deepest personal problems on everybody else. I think most people would be happier if they kept more to themselves." Once known as cutups who could down beers with the best of 'em, Jordan and Powell have become homebodies, of necessity. There is little time for cavorting. Though the two are thrown together regularly in the White House and on the tennis courts, they rarely see one another after hours-what few afterhours their jobs leave them. Their wives, both named Nancy...
...ever released from his self-imposed servitude, says Jordan, he would consider teaching or writing-or becoming an ambassador, just to "shake 'em up." Powell says he wants to raise hunting dogs: "I'm going to be the shrewdest damn political observer that has ever raised dogs in Vienna, Ga." Could it be? An ambassador who loathes neckties and a quipster with no audience for his one-liners but a pack of droopy-eared hounds? With Ham and Jody, as Washington is learning, anything is possible...
...film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember. The word for this movie is fun." For once, a director is right about his own work. Star Wars has brought fun back to the movies and glowingly demonstrated they still can make 'em like they used...
...about to say something about how I didn't think the Holy Father would care to hear Ignatius's views on ecumenism and Church reform, but canned the speech. Hell, I had won--he was the one who was talking heresy now, real burn-'em-at-the-stake stuff if the Knights of the Inquistion ever got the word back to Rome. The quality of mercy is not strained and all that, I thought, so I just nodded and walked away...