Word: joined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobby for his energy proposals. But wherever he went, he was never able to escape the long shadow of his rival, not even aboard Air Force One on the way to his first stop, Hartford, Conn. As a courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press...
Addressing some 1,000 retired people in Hartford, Carter cracked, "As much as I admire you as retired persons, I must admit that I am not yet tempted to join your ranks any time soon." Then he assured the audience that there would be sufficient heating oil on hand for the winter, an issue of special concern for New Englanders, and announced the creation of an office in Boston to coordinate the handling of emergency fuel oil shortages, should any arise. He also said that he had asked the nation's largest oil companies to freeze the price...
...Steubenville, Ohio (pop. 30,771), a steel-and-coal town. The trip got off to an unpromising start when Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a Kennedy ally, did not show up. The state's other Democratic Senator, John Glenn, rode with the President through town but did not join him on the stage when he spoke. Asked if he was keeping his distance from the President. Glenn replied: "I'm neither keeping my distance nor getting close...
...case John Paul II gets sick, his personal physician will accompany him on the tour. A team of paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade, and three hospitals will have volunteer staffs ready to take care of him. For the expected crowd of 500,000, the city hospitals and American Red Cross will man nine first-aid stations on the Common, and 34 extra ambulances will be ready for duty...
Medical care for the Pope will begin as soon as he lands at Logan Airport, when paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade. Until his entourage leaves the South End, Boston City Hospital will be responsible for his care. When he gives the Mass on the common, Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will take responsibility for him and for any crowd emergencies. St. Elizabeth's Hospital will take care of medical problems of the papal motorcade en route to the home of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Jacobs said...