Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disclosed that Carter had been getting up at 5:30 a.m. to cram in more study time, then going back to the office after supper to work on accumulated papers. He has divided the "users of the President's time" into nine categories (examples: Cabinet, political leaders, Congress, staff) to try to achieve more efficiency. But somebody who saw Carter said he looked tired. He talked only about the fun he was having. Another workaholic...
Brass Plaque. Kissinger's own office is roomy but still bare. The only decoration-a farewell gift from the State Department's Policy Planning Staff-is a poster of a glowering orangutan, captioned: IF I WANT YOUR OPINION, I'LL BEAT IT OUT OF YOU. At the end of a small conference table is Kissinger's brown leather Cabinet chair with a brass plaque affixed to the back that reads...
...luck all through his life had been phenomenal, Kissinger admitted. "My career was an accident. You cannot aim for it. It cannot be duplicated by design. Most people who come to power in Washington have aggressively sought it. I thought that I would be a staff aide to the President and nothing more...
...stores for the toys, furs, watches, gowns, cameras, TV games bought with the "holiday money" that the stores sent out in November (how far away that "first payment not due till February" seemed then). From credit-card companies for the drinks so expansively signed for that day the office staff knocked off early to spend the afternoon toasting one another's health. In many households those bills will not be paid for months, during which time the families will have to scrimp. Says A.J. Monjure III, director of Greater New Orleans' Consumer Credit Counseling Service: "Now is when...
...bears the burden of an old New England family, "the sort of people who claimed to be sustained by tradition, but who were in fact sustained by the much more robust pursuit of a workable improvisation, uninhibited by consistency." Translation: like the House of Lords or the German general staff, the Farraguts knew how to survive...