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...Washington with unrealistically high expectations?a display of naivete not confined to Capitol Hill. After eight quarrelsome years of Republican Presidents and Democratic majorities in Congress, there were high hopes of a new spirit of harmony between the White House and the Congress. Instead, Carter and the legislators were jaw to jaw from the very outset...
...jaw fell open when I saw that the first-class fare from New York to London was $1,312. I found it hard to believe that the airlines have the audacity to charge such fares. Then I had to laugh at the fools who would pay such a price...
Mondale took all the suggestions about his fading away with typical good humor. Jutting his jaw up and to the side, he gibed, "Is this my high profile or my low profile?" His aides argued that Mondale's less prominent role was in fact intended to make him more valuable to Carter. Said one of Mondale's associates: "For a Vice President, there's an almost inverse ratio between effectiveness and visibility." From the outset of the Carter Administration, Mondale -one of the two insiders in the White House (the other: James Schlesinger) with broad national...
After many jolts to the jaw, a setback on minimum wages...
...their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying effort would be needed. They had no such excuse last week, when the House voted on the minimum wage; the AFL-CIO deployed 100 "educators on labor law reform" to spread its gospel. Result: another series of jolts to the jaw...