Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaker O'Neill contends that the President does not truly understand the independent mood of the present Congress. Carter insists he does. But the President says he is not going to stand for the traditional inclinations of Congress to juggle figures. Said Carter: "There is a new kind of political leader, not only in the White House but in the Congress itself. They do not depend on a Speaker, or the Democratic Party, or a presidential candidate to help put them in office. I think this is one reason we are much more likely to see success in November...
Wilson makes it clear that he is not overjoyed about the new openness. He thinks his organization is under scrutiny mainly because "it is the mood of the day. The critics started in on Washington and the presidency, then Congress and then the FBI. The more visible an organization becomes, the more open it is to criticism...
...Justice Department was in no mood to be bluffed, even by troubled steelmakers, and talks dragged on and on in a months-long game of high-stakes political poker. Ever since last November, steel conglomerates LTV Corp. and Lykes Corp. have argued fiercely that the only alternative to their planned merger was Lykes' bankruptcy and the layoff of thousands of steelworkers. But antitrust officials objected that even the marriage of two money losers. LTV's Jones & Laughlin and Lykes' Youngstown Sheet and Tube, would reduce steel competition. In the end, it came down to a very close...
...good mood that day was too irrepressible to quench. He had Politicians' Euphoria, a condition I later came to recognize on election-night victories-that moment of vulnerability when candidates are at their loosest and most expansive. Ike held a drink in his hand, and I found myself in a corner encouraging his indiscretion. Baron Krupp had just been freed from Allied imprisonment; and two of us launched him on that subject. There was nothing we could do about Krupp now in 1952, said Ike; we had to let Krupp go free; but he didn't like...
...late in the afternoon, and he was dressed in an old West Point bathrobe of blue and gray wool which displayed the Army "A" on its back; occasionally he puffed on a corncob pipe. We rejoiced together that we alone understood the Japanese peril to America; in this sympathetic mood, he began to reminisce. He had been a young first lieutenant when he came here after graduation from West Point in 1903; he had fought the little Philippine brown brothers in the Aguinaldo insurrection. He had commanded a U.S. division in combat in World War I; had been Chief...