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Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill plans the pilgrimage, assuring that half the political machine will be shut down. The other half will be on hold. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, a Texan and a Cowboys nut, is weakening. He may attend along with Michael Deaver, another of the Reagan triumvirate. Senator Paul Laxalt heads south, and so does Cabinet Officer William Brock, the President's trade expert. Watergate Judge John J. Sirica will be under Cooke's wing, loving the thunder on the turf and delighted he won't have to make a single...
...that it has more to hide? That would be uncharitable, perhaps unfair. Consider it instead a perfectly understandable desire to think well of oneself and of one's work. Isn't everyone counseled to think positively, to look on the bright side, to observe the dough nut rather than the hole, to see that a half-empty glass is really half full? In a time of uncertainty, it is possible to give the Government the benefit of the doubt, just as any citizen customarily gives the same benefit to himself. After all, as the saying goes, nothing...
...print or on the air. One helpful source of pressure: a commitment to correct errors publicly. "In the old days," says Cameron Blodgett, executive director of the watchdog Minnesota News Council, "the way to deal with a complaint about a mistake was to yell, 'There's a nut on the line,' and hang up." In the past few years, many newspapers have created a standing format for corrections. The Louisville Courier-Journal runs its admissions of error on the front page of the local news section under the headline "Beg Your Pardon"; its sister paper, the Louisville...
...stalled gun control legislation in Congress through its well known tactics of political and financial intimidation. Senators and Representatives who might ordinarily favor gun control are effectively dissuaded from doing so by the spectre of large NRA contributions to an opponent's campaign and the mobilization of the "gun nut" vote...
...Harvard and the American Broadcasting Co, on how to increase voter registration. Even the television cameramen wore luzedos and white gloves for the gala, which drew many of the Capital's media and political chieftains. Before the dinner, waiters mingled among the crowd, offering peeled grapes coated with a nut cheese spread and small slices of quiche, During the meal, two men waited on each table to serve the five courses, and their accompanying wines...