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...concerns the House of Lords. Gilbert has his Lord Mountararat (a name suggesting the aristocracy's excessive reverence for ancestry) proclaim that "If there is a single institution that is unsusceptible of any improvement whatsoever, it is the House of the Lords." This recalls the Duke of Wellington's remark a half-century earlier that Parliament was perfect--on the eve of the Reform Bill...
...joke about Italian tanks having five gears, one forward and four reverse. When Die Welt printed the Chancellor's jape, the Italian government was not amused. Schmidt's aides promptly reached for their own reverse gears. Accepting German denials that Schmidt had ever made the remark, the Italian embassy in Bonn declared the case closed. "After all," an official observed diplomatically, "Germany and Italy are NATO allies and members of the European community...
...because the child saw him more on the tube than in person. Joan Kennedy offers a one-word self-description: "Vulnerable." Jane Muskie may have cost her husband the Democratic nomination in 1972 by trying to relax with four women reporters after an exhausting campaign day. Her throw-away remark, "Let's just sit here and tell dirty jokes," was published and led to Muskie's celebrated New Hampshire "crying scene...
...Kilson's remark that Jews ought to raise more money if they wish to worship at Harvard. The Crimson has recently reported that Harvard has launched a special drive to raise 15 million dollars largely from Jewish alumni. The Jewish alumni are working vigorously to raise this money, and yet the University has announced that NONE OF THIS MONEY will be used to provide the desperately needed space and facilities for Jewish worship at Harvard, although the University will continue to provide space for, and support financially, the Protestant church services...
Steinberg tries without much success to paint Rayburn as a courageous defender of liberal principles. For example, he notes approvingly Rayburn's agreement with Harry Truman's remark that "Nixon probably never read the Constitution, and if by chance he had he did not understand it." At the same time, he minimizes Rayburn's support of Truman's unconstitutional seizure of the nation's steel mills during the Korean War and of Wilson's Sedition Act, under which hundreds of citizens were jailed for denouncing the United States' role in World...