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...simpler tastes of their humble beginnings. But younger congressional leaders, such as Carl Albert and Gerald Ford, also avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
...whirl around a room...
NOTEBOOK begins with poems to his daughter Harriet--throughout he invokes her, age 9, 10 1/2, 11, for what she can be, love, and know beyond him--"God as seaslug, God a queen with forty servants, God. . .she gave up--things whirl in the chainsaw bite of whatever squares the universe by name and number." Harriet--outside, in life, sometimes is able to see through "the fog" which her father like "the first philosopher. . .trying to pick up a car key clumsily opaques with his headlights." Harriet appears frequently in the poems--to clarify, identify, be, to be hoped...
Jackie has traced an esthetic arc of grief, ending with a stylish whirl into another world. Ethel's special triumph has been to maintain normalcy. She has simply carried on, as best she could, the kind of existence that Bobby would have pursued had he lived. Countless other widows have had to do as much, most of them with less comfort from friends, family and position. Yet to acknowledge this takes nothing away from the energetic gallantry with which Ethel has managed...
...many there are some mixed feelings about tearing up roots and coming to Washington. One of the Finch offspring at first objected: "Oh, gee, do we really have to move?" Mrs. Kennedy fears that the Washington whirl will be like "living in a fishbowl." Lenore Romney admits that when she realized she had to leave Michigan "I sat down and had a good cry with my daughter," but now she is looking forward to the challenge. "Washington," she says, "is more an opportunity than a place." That is true enough. With all of the capital's social problems...