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Nitzkowski says he declined to pursue his career on the gridiron "because I was disillusioned with the whole football thing in high school. It was a degrading, dehumanizing experience, and I wanted a more low-key experience...
Sensing the mood, Carter's lobbyists on the Hill realized that they faced a losing fight. The President invited the committee's Democrats to a White House breakfast (orange juice, Danish and coffee), but he too took a low-key approach. "There was no arm twisting whatever," reported Connecticut's William Cotter. Added Arkansas' Jim Guy Tucker: "He didn't press us to the wall or anything. He was very reasonable...
...lacked the dazzle of his flamboyant predecessor, but his low-key, almost reticent manner and his quiet sense of competence impressed his hosts. By his very visit, so early in the new Carter Administration, he restored momentum to the long-stalled peacemaking process. At Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport he proclaimed that his would "not be an easy task nor one which is quickly achieved." But he arrived in the Middle East when hopes for peace were higher than at any time since...
...have to offer. If you take it, fine, if not, that's OK too.' At Princeton, I was taken out to dinner and always received letters and telephone calls from the coach. If I had gone to Princeton, I would have felt like I had to swim." Obviously, this low-key approach (what other approach would be used at Harvard?) works (and not just for athletes. We're here, right...
More broadly, the nation's regional press has applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years...