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...easy it is to assemble a mail bomb. "Ted was a hard worker," says his closest neighbor, Leland Mason, 57, "but he was not a smart worker. Short on common sense. He was not mechanically inclined. He had one old pickup truck one summer and drove it until it quit on him. It was just a minor thing that was wrong with the truck, but he didn't know how to fix it. He just let it sit up there, until somebody bought it from him. It only cost the new owner $25 for the part. Ted had a hard...
...remember several of his secretaries feeling--I just remember they all disliked him," the co-worker says. "I remember one of his secretaries quit and somebody said he'd been acting weird for a couple of days. At one level it wasn't very descriptive, but on another level, when somebody said that, I knew what he was talking about...
...Mitch McConnell cried harassment after being called "baby" by the 58-year-old cashier, who has been dishing up food and Southern endearments for 30 years in the Capitol. Fortunately, staff members in Senator David Pryor's office, who eat at "Bernice's" every day, found out she had quit rather than be transferred, even though she was just short of qualifying for her full pension. A letter-writing campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because the complainant is hearing impaired. His boss, however, had a chance to stop him but didn...
When Bob Dole decided to run for President, a small voice inside him, the voice of the Depression kid from hardscrabble Russell, Kansas, said, "Bob, don't quit your day job." And he didn't. Flying back to Washington last week on his campaign plane after wrapping up the nomination fight, Dole confided that he was "anxious to get back to work." Back to work? In other words, Dole was done moonlighting as a Republican primary candidate and now wanted to return to his real work, the job he knows and loves and does better than anyone else...
...best she could. In a New Yorker article by Peter Boyer, she recounts how she'd finally completed the move from Little Rock to Washington just as the travel-office controversy peaked, and Vince greeted her with the news that he thought he should resign. "You can't quit," she told him. "I just got here." Lisa called Foster's White House office frequently, asking his secretary, "How's he doing?" Deborah Gorham always said, "Fine," trying to maintain a professional distance, even though she too thought Foster was suffering from strain...