Word: pols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People's attitudes and shifting political perceptions, as catalogued in the Gallyp and Harris polls, could even be cranked into a central information system. That of course suggests some Strangelovian scenes such as Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top pol, in a domestic command bunker, farm boots up on the computer console, phone in hand, lights flashing across huge screens: "Get Strauss out to Pittsburgh. The steel areas are angry red ... Tell Califano to shut up on tobacco. North Carolina has dropped off the map ... Can Brown pump some defense contracts into the West Coast? Unemployment is edging...
...Strauss observed last week, "it is inflation 100, Strauss 0.' For an old pol like Strauss, who used to grab arms and twist them, trying to track down something like inflation is infuriating. "It's a lot of ghosts," he said. "It's like fog I like to be able to shake something, to hit it, to denounce somebody...
...responsibility is to stay on top of the private sector's compliance with the President's inflation goals. About the only lever we have is public condemnation if the goals are violated, and I think Strauss is a goddam good condemner. You really need a good pol to do this right. Mike Blumenthal could be that if he really wanted to, but I don't think he does...
...world surely changed a bit with the Panama Canal vote last week, and so did Jimmy Carter, his White House and Government. Carter shed some more of that evangelical sheen, orchestrating millions of dollars for a few votes, just like an oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote...
...should read Breslin. He's a foine ruddy Irish lad who latched onto that foine ruddy Irish pol Tip O'Neill to become the Giant Leprechaun who could set the truth free about Watergate...