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According to Hank O'Donnell, the head of Dukakis' legislative relations office, Dukakis inherited $450 million in unpaid bills and a $350 million budget deficit when he took office in 1974. The following two years were equally bleak: the promise of no new taxes was broken with a delayed but major tax increase, a severe slashing of such social welfare appropriations as those providing eyeglasses for the elderly and cost of living increases for welfare recipients; and an austerity budget that restricted many vital and popular programs. The budget cuts were a major reason why such fervent Dukakis supporters...
...diversity, a mood of good fellowship seemed to prevail. Said one celebrated Atlantan, Baseball Slugger Hank Aaron, on Inauguration Eve: "Tomorrow at noon, the war between the North and the South is truly over." Remarked British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Ramsbotham on viewing his first Inauguration: "There is a great feeling of reconciliation. Such extraordinary good humor...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...
...committee representing numerous ethnic groups was upset about the Inauguration Eve concert in Kennedy Center. The stars include Actors John Wayne and Paul Newman, Actresses Bette Davis and Shirley MacLaine, Comics Elaine May, Mike Nichols and Redd Foxx, Athletes Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron, Satirist Chevy Chase, Soprano Beverly Sills, Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Yet the Ethnic Cultural Inaugural Committee complained that the cast "doesn't reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of America." Most of the carping, however, centered on invitations and tickets. Some 300,000 "general invitations" on soft eggshell paper and colorful 16-page guides...
...city's radios and television sets that Sunday afternoon. The Chiefs' victory that year was won amid a gambling investigation during which the name of Quarterback Lenny Dawson arose. President Richard Nixon made two of his famous locker-room calls to buck up Dawson and Coach Hank Stram...