Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this one is by now part of presidential history-the middle-aged runner with the yellow headband and the number 39 on his T shirt nearing the top of a long hill in Catoctin Mountain National Park, then beginning to moan and falter. "I've got to keep trying," gasped Jimmy Carter, now sweating heavily. "If I can just make the top, I've got it made...
...ascetic-looking, genial Navy doctor. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Lukash has been on the White House medical staff since 1967, when he began helping to care for Lyndon Johnson. Gerald Ford promoted him to White House physician in 1974 and Carter decided to keep him in the post, which involves tending not only the First Family but the 1,300 members of the White House staff...
...Democratic Congress men late in the week, Carter vented his frustration with the House, particularly over its rejection of the canal bill. He warned that campaign help, patronage appointments and even White House dinner invitations would henceforth go only to members who back his policies. Said the President: "We keep your voting records in my desk drawer in the Oval Office. We believe in rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies." That may or may not influence Congress...
They noticed some photographs of John Kennedy. Special high-level dispensation was required before Ambassador Sargent Shriver-married to President Kennedy's sister Eunice-was permitted to keep the pictures of his brother-in-law on visible display...
Said he: "If it has the feel of life in it, I will keep it going, even with losses. If it doesn...