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...problem, though, was that Curtis forgot to let District 65 know the drivers were intent on joining the UAW. District 65 leaders wisely chose to disassociate themselves from the case...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Shuttle Diplomacy | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

...that a new national consensus has been needed ever since the basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that increase in public alienation. "Lyndon Johnson forgot to ask for a tax increase to pay for the Viet Nam War," Boiling says wryly, "and that was the breaking point. In the absence of a broad overall concept, people retreated to their own interests. Society became fractionalized, and the interest groups exacerbated that. No President and no Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Reform the System | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...legal pad, beginning a painstaking rewrite that continued later with the help of speechwriters and ended only five hours before he went on-camera in the Oval Office. Though Reagan rarely carries cash, he made a point of bringing a dollar bill into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins with him also and had to ask Aide David Fischer for some. The purpose was to try out a gesture that he later used on TV: holding up the greenback in one hand and tossing a quarter, a dime and a penny onto his desk with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 36C Buck Stops Here | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...legislative innovator. But she did guide her state through a time of difficult fiscal adjustment with crafty and sensitive intelligence and left the Hartford treasury in a state of health that Connecticut's neighbors to the north and south can only admire enviously. Throughout her six years, she never forgot her dedication to the consumer and the handicapped, to the worker and the impoverished, and acted with a compassion rarely seen in politics today. Her resignation last year was an act of consumate political grace. And her death quieted a voice that still very much needed to be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ella Grasso | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

...weakest part of the speech was Reagan's presentation of graphs that "looked like something out of Social Analysis 10." Eckstein said, noting that "the President forgot to label the axes...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Reagan's Style Draws Praise From Experts | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

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