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...Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, offered to Jaworski to become Special Prosecutor: "Haig said, 'You're highly regarded, and it's no secret that you're high on the list for appointment to the Supreme Court.' I suppressed a smile. The remark could have been part flattery, part fact, but I suspected it was all bait...
When House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill says that Gerald Ford is the "last Republican President," his remark can be dismissed as partisan indulgence. But Oregon's former Republican Governor Tom McCall has to be taken more seriously when he says, with gallows wit: "I thought the party was already six feet under. You should speak more respectfully of the dead." Warns House Minority Leader John Rhodes: "If the G.O.P. does not experience a significant change in political fortunes by 1978, it is likely to go the way of the Whigs...
Interpreting a poll by Patrick Caddell as rating John Connally low on integrity, Carter in an interview needlessly added that only Alabama Governor George Wallace ranked lower. The remark recalled similarly gratuitous comments that Carter had made during the primaries about Hubert Humphrey and Ted Kennedy, and a number of the Georgian's Southern supporters let him know that they were unhappy about it. Carter lost no time in telephoning Wallace in Montgomery, Ala., to apologize...
...moments such as these, talk does indeed seem cheap. For all its laconic wit, The Judgment of Deke Hunter still teeters be tween the description of manners and the repetition of mannerisms. The characters are good fun to be around, but they never get more complicated than their last remark...
...veteran sportscasters behaved and misbehaved predictably. In boxing, Howard Cosell was so partial to the U.S. fighters that it seemed he had got his early training as a stage mother. Chris Schenkel displayed his familiar aptitude for the gauche remark. Said Schenkel when Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne got back on her horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report...