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...Presidents do not agree on things, but I think most of the antagonism that has developed arises because the Vice President has not been in the flow of the decision-making process. He has been sitting over in the Executive Office Building across the street, and his staff is jealous of the staff in the West Wing. It is a bad situation. But if you put the Vice President in the flow of things as the Chief of Staff, he would be a part of every decision, not just an adjunct over there waiting for the President...
Miller also provides some insight into the depth of Johnson's dislike for Robert Kennedy. Johnson, according to several interviews, was madly jealous of the younger Kennedy, always fearing that he was plotting to reclaim his assassinated brother's title. According to aide John Roche, Johnson's envy knew no bounds, and he recalls that Johnson never forgave his favorite aide Bill Moyers for being photographed dining with Kennedy the day after he resigned as Johnson's press secretary...
Union City has the chic punk sensibility of New York fashion. Starring Deborah Harry in a non-singing role, the story is based on a cheap thriller, The Corpse Next Door. With garish Fifties sets and color, astutely overacted in Eisenhower-era soullessness, the psychological disintegration of a jealous husband is slowly depicted. The husband thinks he has accidentally murdered a milk thief and hides him in the empty apartment next door, a plot mechanism which allows the actors and actresses to camp up their roles to the limit, while dressing up in fashionable rags as well...
McNally lives well in Billings, but his salary is tiny in comparison to that of today's baseball player. As a man responsible for these salaries, one might expect him to be bitter, or jealous. On the contrary, he seems content...
...long time the American Medical Association often seemed like a stuffy gentlemen's club: jealous of member privileges, adamantly opposed to change. It resisted Medicare, the federal medical program for the elderly, and still balks at government-run national health insurance. But lately the old club is becoming more relaxed. The latest sign of change came at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago last week. By an overwhelming margin, the A.M.A.'s 279-member legislative body, the house of delegates, approved sweeping revisions in the code of ethics that tells doctors how to conduct their practices...