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...wear jeans. Some wanted Carter to drive his own car in city traffic jams and to do his own shopping at the supermarket-just to keep a feel for prices. Warned Karl Olson of Rockville, Md.: "Don't go to the real exclusive places for lunch like Sans Souci, Trader Vic's or places like that. I suggest McDonald's ... Eat where the people...
Among some, however, there is considerable optimism about the Carter era. Notes Paul Delisle, maître d' of what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
...early '60s to assassinate Fidel Castro. It made a kind of amoral sense for the agency to turn to the Mob: when the Cuban leader took power, he closed down the Mafia's big moneymaking operations in Havana; Roselli had been running the swank Sans Souci gambling casino there. Roselli told the Senators that he also saw the killing of Castro as a "patriotic" endeavor, something he could do for his country. Both poisoned cigars and poisoned pills were considered by the CIA. For reasons that remain unclear, the mobsters muffed...
Wednesday morning Ford underwent his semiannual physical examination, and White House Physician Dr. William Lukash pronounced him in "excellent health." Later, to celebrate her husband's 63rd birthday, Betty Ford took him to the posh French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
...years ago, and Lague, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), Rhode Island-born former reporter for the now defunct Washington Daily News, stay out of the limelight. Unlike other professional gossip collectors, they avoid parties and are rarely seen at fashionable restaurants. Their first trip together to swank Sans Souci got them, in Lague's phrase, a table in "Haute Siberia." "Our work is done on the phone," says she. "We check our items. We don't run rumor, and we don't run anything we don't think is true...