Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schlesinger, of course, was an insider, one of those who had direct access to President Kennedy. He was one of those invited out to Hickory Hill, Bobby's mansion, "the most spirited social center in Washington." And as this colleaguecum-historian writes, "It was hard to resist the raffish, unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable Kennedy parties." So this is biography written by the Washington equivalent of a drinking buddy of the subject. And the book's credibility is cut still further when, in a passage set in the early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill...
TEXAS. Again a personality clash between two conservative candidates. "I think the race is getting to be more fun all the time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate...
Still, there was plenty of activity outside the committee room. Reported TIME Capitol Hill Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "To the corridors of the Longworth Office Building flocked senior Administration officials and top Washington tax lobbyists. They huddled in dark corners with anxious conferees to check the latest status of the 126 individual points before the joint committee. Arms were being twisted and deals being made. An example was the special tax deduction for companies with personnel based overseas. The House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This...
...activity on Capitol Hill was being carefully monitored by the White House. Jimmy Carter postponed a planned weekend trip to Camp David and Press Secretary Jody Powell quipped that "the President's afraid to leave town." Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat patrolled outside the conference room, lobbying for Carter's position that an increased share of the tax relief go to lower-and middle-income taxpayers. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was consulting constantly with Congressmen; among other things, he warned them that a tax bill would be vetoed if it contained, as the Nunn amendment did, "restraints" on future...
...over the bodies of 300,000 serfs and some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected? The Foreign Friend...