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...working in any hotel, but if the new Attorney General were, it seems woefully clear that it would be the type of establishment that only let rooms to people with the right grandparents. When Griffin Bell was sworn in last month, he made a symbolic gesture by reopening the front doors to the Justice Building, doors that had been sealed shut since the Vietnam War protests during the Nixon administration. Unlike the doors to Bell's private all-white and all-made Atlanta clubs, those portals will be open to all Americans...
...They" were Jimmy Carter and the members of his new Administration, all freshly sworn in and now making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...
...ceremony in the White House East Room in which eight Cabinet members were sworn in, the Marine Band omitted the traditional ruffles and flourishes and Hail to the Chief, which Carter has banned as too regal. After introducing the men and women of his Cabinet, he underscored his intention of making them his primary advisers and giving them a free hand in running their departments. Said he: "There will never be an instance, while I am President, when the members of the White House staff dominate or act in a superior position to the members of our Cabinet...
Some 100,000 shivering people had thronged onto the lawn and into the makeshift bleachers. The Marine Band played the Navy Hymn in Carter's honor, and Walter Mondale was sworn in as Vice President by-at his own request -House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Then came Carter's turn. "Are you ready to take the oath of office?" Chief Justice Warren Burger asked him at precisely 12:03 p.m. No man had ever been readier. While Rosalynn held the family Bible, Carter placed his hand on it; in front of him was the Bible used...
...celebration of "simple things" from the same place eight years ago-and then limousined down to the White House and turned it into an imperial palace. Despite his humble background, Lyndon Johnson was a creature of power, and when he finally stood on the Capitol steps to be sworn in as President on his own right, he loomed large over the small people in the street below. That is the way he liked it to be. Most people watched John Kennedy as if he were a matinee idol. They were awed and entertained but realized that his was a special...