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Thursday, 28--Declaring his undying love for everyone in the Atlanta convention hall as well as those at home in front of their television sets, Dr. Leo Buscaglia today accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency of the United States of America. "Just as Ike promised to go to Korea, I pledge to you today, my fellow Americans, that I will traverse the land for as long as it takes until I have hugged each and every one of you, thus uniting the entire nation--metaphorically speaking, of course--within my loving embrace. If you don't vote...
...cliff -- though no one in this gossipy town takes any notice of it. Is this old man loco? No, he is on the side of the angels. One angel, anyway: a venerable sprite (Robert Carricart) who plays the concertina, quotes Shakespeare and orchestrates the war like a seraphic Ike...
...Alibi Ike...
Meanwhile, Gephardt served his House colleagues as assiduously as they served their hometown constituents. Every working day for eleven years, he drove disabled Colleague Ike Skelton to and from Capitol Hill, and he befriended scores of lawmakers, careful to call on junior and senior members in their offices, not his. Perhaps his least-known accomplishment illustrates the point best: a 1979 amendment to the budget act allowed grateful members to vote an increase to program budgets without casting a highly visible second vote to raise the debt limit to pay for such projects. When he set his sights...
...terms, Johnson, the Senate's majority leader, flared up just like Wright after visits to the White House, though Johnson was far more cautious about who heard him. "That man does not deserve to be President," L.B.J. roared one night back in his Capitol office, even after Ike had poured him a generous portion of Scotch and soda. Poor old Ike, Johnson recounted, did not know where legislative bills were in Congress or even what was in them...