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...prompted people at airports to pile him with baggage and ask what time the flight was leaving. Then there is the big, clunky hearing aid that he takes out and fusses with right in the middle of a conversation, as if it were a pipe, and the canvas tote he uses as a briefcase, and his habit of loudly cracking his knuckles. On top of that there are the Old Testament beard and the preacher's voice that make him seem like Moses come down again from Mount Sinai to deliver commandments 11 through 20. Smoking? It's an addiction...
From the start, the House electronic tote board showed the adjournment motion, made by House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-Calif.), was losing...
...Liberal lady commentator from the Washington Post walks up the White House drive carrying bright red tote bag, a souvenir from last summer's Democratic Convention. Big braying donkey is stamped on the bag's side. Reminder of late Speaker Sam Rayburn's caution: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." Footnote to the above: on any given day there are three times as many jackasses in Washington as there are Democrats...
...some campaign tactics, however successful, exact a price. For Bush it was a victory without drum rolls, a majority without a meaningful mandate. The single-hued certainty of the TV tote boards left no ambiguity as to the verdict. Once again the American people had chosen a Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious...
...completely indigent. He gets $637 a month disability from the government for problems arising from his alcoholism, washes up every night at a Santa Monica church (where he sleeps on the doorstep), and keeps his possessions -- photo albums, letters and graduation certificates -- neatly tucked away inside a black vinyl tote bag. The adopted son of a well-off Washington family, Brown says he attended a military academy in Virginia, spent a semester in college and then joined the Navy and later became a signalman. But when the family finances collapsed through mismanagement, he took to the streets...