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...earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets his own glass of water, when he can. "In the White House there is a fellow there to throw the logs on the fire," he complained last week, talking about why he does his own chores...
...steward served fried eggs, the President was asked how he would cope with the sudden change from wielding enormous power one day to having it disappear the next. "I don't know," he said, an answer that seldom passes from Carter's lips. His preoccupations have always been outside himself; he is not a man who publicly agonizes over his psyche. "Right now," he said, "I think I can accept the change without too much damage to myself...
...steward moved in to clear the table. A telephone call came for the President. He took it by the window, turning the chair around so that he could gaze out on the lawn as he listened. His caring for the White House was palpable. The ambitious, driven man clearly regretted leaving the place. And his regret somehow gave credence to an astonishing conversation that he had with one of his senior aides shortly after the election. The President asked if it were possible to install a loyalist as head of the Democratic National Committee so that Carter could maintain some...
Harvard's legalistic and business-like techniques frustrate union activists, breeding a sort of paranoia. The evidence shows that concern on the part of union leaders is not unfounded. Consider the case of Sherman Holcombe, a dining hall shop steward suspended in 1977 for cooking cauliflower au gratin too long--during a period when he had become particularly outspoken about Harvard's treatment of its workers. Or the case oy Alan Balsam, a dining hall chief shop steward suspended for cooking hamburgers too long--in the middle of a particularly feisty round of contract negotiations. Even if persecuted union leaders...
HUERA's vice president, Darleen Bonislawski, recently felt that brand of paranoid persecution. So did Ed Gardin, an HUERA shop steward. They had filed a grievance against Harvard on behalf of part-time workers and shortly afterwards began to feel the heat. The University, they believed, was harassing them for their union activity--Gardin complained of being followed, and Bonislawski stomped out of a meeting with the manager of custodial services when he told her she needed permission before doing union business during working hours. The union's contract stipulates that officials such as Bonislawski or Gardin must receive permission...