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...Even Republican Congressmen, who face voter wrath more frequently than Senators, are getting antsy. "People are asking us, 'What are you guys going to do about these high energy prices?'" says Oklahoma Representative J.C. Watts Jr. "High gas prices didn't happen overnight, but explaining that to voters is tough." G.O.P. Congressmen don't want to return to angry town meetings in their districts with an energy plan that lacks concrete steps to deal with high gas prices and energy brownouts. "We've got members of Congress who are freaked out over this," says a senior House G.O.P. aide...
...body counters in Washington didn't care.To them, every dead Vietnamese was Viet Cong. We knew differently. There were literally thousands of cases where shots were fired, bombs dropped and rockets launched without any sure knowledge of the target's capabilities, intentions or age. America's children were plunged overnight into a world of sniper fire, ambushes, buddies going home in body bags and the confusion created when enemies and allies look and dress the same...
...type of decision you don't make overnight," explained a committee member. “It's a life decision. We thought he would be interested, but we didn't have 100 percent confidence...
...solve the Hollywood writers strike overnight with the Tito Plan. Instead of paying screenwriters millions of dollars for their mostly sophomoric work, the studios could get multi-millionaires to pay them big bucks to produce their equally jejune screenplays. And why not have billionaires pay to star in the movie itself? This way, the studios would be able to make a profit even before the film starts shooting and then avoid all that tricky accounting to show that it lost money. And like being a President or an astronaut, being an actor doesn't require any particular credentials either...
...five. How different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright and handsome and - as it seemed that first spring, after the Bay of Pigs - dangerously inexperienced. Lyndon Johnson, flying home from Dallas, transformed Washington overnight... Nixon after Johnson... Ford after Nixon, Carter after Ford, Reagan after Carter, and so on, to Bush...