Word: veep
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...wanted to be a lightning rod for American arts and crafts, Joan Mondale said during the campaign. As the Veep's wife, she has been an electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them...
Ever since Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev booted President Nikolai Podgorny out of office and assumed the presidency himself last June, Kremlinologists have been speculating about who might be named to the newly created post of Vice President. A Veep was needed to take over the fatiguing ceremonial functions of the presidency, like scooting out to the airport to meet visiting chiefs of state and pumping the hands of ambassadors at diplomatic receptions. Brezhnev, 70, reportedly ailing with arteriosclerosis and leukemia, was regarded as too old and frail for such chores. His selection of a Vice President might suggest...
Nothing pussyfooted about the average gang or "click," as some kids like to call it. At the top of the heap is the "prez," who, if he wants to stay there, had better respond to every threat and challenge. The "veep" supervises internal affairs, especially dues and initiation rituals; the "war counselor" plans the "ripoffs" and "gang-hits" and commands the "gestapo" squads, which consist of the enforcers; the "armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like...
Past Vice Presidents would be amazed and envious of Walter Frederick Mondale. Here is a Veep not only exercising power but reveling in it, surrounded by scurrying aides and history in the making. In the job that one of his 41 predecessors (John Nance Garner) compared unfavorably to a pitcher of warm spit, Mondale claims to be having the time of his life. He is a top adviser who is consulted, listened to and liked by the President: One measure of his closeness with his boss is their good-natured exchange of gibes. At the Gridiron Dinner, Mondale remarked...
...VEEP'S MANDATE. So far, I have been given a freedom to roam. I think, first of all, that President Carter is not threatened by the Vice President. He told me when we met in July that he had just been reading some books on the presidency. One of the things that struck him was how Presidents seemed to feel threatened by the presence of a Vice President, as though he were a threat to their constitutional powers or reminded them of their mortality...