Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would guess 10% of my working day is spent on politics, and 90% on presidential business. My working day begins at 6 o'clock in the morning and usually runs until 7:30 at night, plus an hour or two after dinner...
Ostentatious Show. So the policy advisers bought tickets on commercial flights to Atlanta (economy class) and, in an additional dose of Carter humility, boarded a chartered bus for the three-hour, 135-mile trip to the house owned by Carter's mother, Miss Lillian. On the way, they lunched on cold fried chicken; like everything except the plane tickets, the lunch was paid for by the Carter campaign committee, which was apparently making an ostentatious show of frugality. First out of the bus was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, his rumpled seersucker jacket slung over his shoulder...
...time for small talk or for watching the turtles and water moccasins that occasionally poked their heads above the surface of the muddy pond near the house. Seated in a circle in the living room, Carter and the experts sipped soft drinks and engaged in a free-flowing, four-hour discussion of U.S. and Soviet treaty commitments, defense spending, the prospects for the nuclear-arms-limitation talks and other military matters...
...briefing ended as a storm broke and lightning crackled all around. The one available umbrella shielded a television camera as Carter escorted the experts through 100 yards of mud to their bus. Commented Warnke, as he faced the three-hour ride back to Atlanta: "It has been very instructive, but not habit-forming...
During the eight-hour pole vault final I was vocally rooting for United States entrants Dave Roberts and Earl Bell. I fear that if I had not, the tense, close competition which featured more of athletes psyching each other and themselves than actual leaping would have been a more effective cure for insomnia than a bottle of Nytol. Certainly, as the endless, often meaningless myriad of women's and men's track heats was paraded before me, the eye searched hopefully for a familiar face and the blue and red costumes with USA lettering on which to focus...