Word: martini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more spirited questions around Washington now is whether Jimmy Carter has ever had a three-martini lunch. Hamilton Jordan, his top aide, has never seen Carter drink even one martini. But Jordan says rather wickedly that he does not know what goes on over in the private part of the mansion after work...
Mary Hoyt, Rosalynn Carter's assistant, is quite firm in her conviction that not a single martini has been mixed in the White House since the Carters arrived. It was Rosalynn, after all, who said out loud that she really enjoyed seeing "people kind of squirm" because there was no liquor served in the White House...
Press Secretary Jody Powell has never witnessed a martini pass the presidential lips. However, he thinks that Carter has tasted one. But there Carter's enthusiasm waned...
...declared Jimmy Carter in his election campaign, during which time he swore off demon rum and all other strong drink. Now, as President, he takes an occasional light Scotch, and he is about to serve up at least a miniprohibition on what he calls "the three-martini lunch." What Carter intends to recommend to Congress in mid-October, as part of his tax "reform" program, is bound to set up howls from even teetotaling business people, as well as restaurateurs and hoteliers...
...deduction that could be taken for a business lunch. Aides are having trouble fixing a figure, since meals and drinks cost so much more in Manhattan than in, say, Cedar Rapids; one guess is $35 for two people. But Carter has railed so vehemently against the "three-martini lunch" that his staff has to come up with something. Carter is also considering eliminating or restricting deductions for club dues, tickets to sports events and the cost of using corporate jets. Business would get new incentives to invest. The tax credit that corporations can take for expansion and modernization expenditures would...