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Those were sweet words to hear. I went back to Aspen and told Rosalynn, Fritz, Cy, Harold and Zbig that everything was all right. I described my conversation with Sadat, and we went back to work. It had been a bad time...
...lunch with Fritz Mondale. He thought that my comment concerning "whipping Kennedy's ass" in the battle for the presidential nomination was illadvised. His is kind of a lonely voice. Some of my staff members said it was the best thing for morale around the White House since the Willie
...Vice President Walter Mondale. Fritz disagreed on a few economic decisions I made, eliminating some social programs I thought were a waste of money. These decisions hurt Fritz, but I never doubted that he was competent, intelligent and loyal to me. There is no doubt in my mind that he is plenty tough enough to be President. He is not naturally as combative as I am, but that is not a sign of weakness...
...Fritz Stern, professor of history at Columbia: "There is a certain absurdity and arbitrariness in making such Lists." Nonetheless: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the Bible, King Lear, Hobbes' Leviathan and Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents...
DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...