Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House with the House Democratic leaders. He went around the table, asking each for his views on the fiscal 1980 budget. The last to be called on was House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "Mr. Speaker," said the President, "I save you for last. I've got to get my marching orders from you." O'Neill said he had spent more than 40 years fighting for social programs for the poor, and he added: "I didn't become Speaker to strip them." Replied the President, "I don't intend to. We're going...
...Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want to?" One man just says, "Viet Nam," ending that), and crime in the county (a man has been shot in a break-in attempt -"Funny thing, he's a married nigger"). None...
...voice got louder. The zingers multiplied. "The Carter Administration is wrong for the times in which we live. It has little sense of strategy, and little sense of the use of power on a global scale." Finally, the point of the speech: "I am today announcing my candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States...
...good to win, because we got the taste of victory back after so long," Hooft said last night...
...course, each time Teddy gets himself in the public eye, the volume of hate mail and death threats he gets goes way up. And as the last brother in the clan, he's got the responsibility for a lot of families. Charisma, personal power, whatever it is that defines the Kennedys as Kennedys--it's a two-edged sword. People are either won over passionately, see Teddy as the last liberal, the only strong leader left, the covert hope of the Democratic Socialists, or they see Teddy as part of a massive, global conspiracy of Mafiosi, British bankers, Zionists, Communists...