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...being bandied about for Carters Cabinet pleased the President-elect's supporters. Inevitably, they displeased some, who feared that Carter was reneging on his campaign's populist themes and promises to bring new faces to the Government's highest levels. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, for one, announced that his honeymoon with Carter might come to a premature end because Carter was paying too much attention to "corporate interests" and not enough to consumer representatives...
...more sentence and I knew I was finished. I had to create a diversion to facilitate my escape from the Honeymoon Hotel. I was desperate. Thousands of question marks, tiny little things, filled out into a cloud over my head. The cloud grew darker and darker until it produced a rumble and then a flash. I had it! A clever ruse to get her out of the room while I practiced my six-story leap into a waiting convertible. In a few short hours I'd be home, where my only thoughts of sex came when my mother boiled zucchini...
Surely these letters would bear witness to a woman of brilliance, possibly genius. There are, in fact, marvelously unmodified capsule comments on her reading. She devoured Crime and Punishment on her honeymoon, lying on a sofa nibbling chocolates, and she kept reading and judging-nonstop, it seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug...
...quite a case of the honeymoon being over even before the marriage had been consummated. But as vacationing President-elect Jimmy Carter gazed out over the soothing marshlands of St. Simons Island off the coast of his native Georgia, pressure was building inexorably. Carter was the loner who had reached the presidency while insisting he owed nothing to any special interest. Yet quite a few groups, either because of their own successful election efforts or Carter's campaign promises, were plainly expecting to collect...
Many people see an advantage in having a President of the same party as the congressional majority. But Carter's dealings with Congress may be difficult-after the traditional honeymoon. He strongly criticizes "dormant" Presidents like Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford for giving-by default -too large a policy role to Congress. Nonetheless, Congress is not likely to stop trying to influence strongly foreign policy or to change the Administration's proposed budgets. To get some of his programs through Congress, particularly those that will offend special-interest groups-many Government employees, for example, will not like...