Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press. So people were scrounging where they shouldn't have been." And it was Baker, she said, who arranged to waken Quayle two nights later to grill him on his National Guard record. "Getting Dan . . . up at 3 in the morning to discuss things," she said, was "just stupid, stupid, stupid! I think there was a frenzy in the press and that kind of produced a frenzy among people who would normally be a little bit more level thinking...
Whining Democratic senators who said we had "smart bombs but stupid children" sounded more like upset youngsters who got too small a piece of cake at the big party than outraged politicians. Sure, you could agree to disagree, but you couldn't disagree and make any difference...
...took some stupid penalties. We showed our immaturity," Tomassoni said...
Califano may not have intended it, but his story casts him as a gentle usurper as L.B.J.'s power ebbs and his energy fades. Califano smothered Johnson's vindictiveness before it left the Oval Office. He just ignored stupid orders, and he pushed his own policy choices on a dispirited boss, a man who could work wonders in the back rooms but was blinded in the open sunlight...
...after enduring four years of solitary, he understandably hungered for companionship -- but he had a hard time adapting to the courtesies of a shared cell. "Other hostages had a sense of when people needed privacy and didn't want to talk," Sutherland said. "Waite wanted to talk constantly, ask stupid questions...