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...LITTLE ADDENDUM: Last week, George Bushannounced his new budget proposals, complete withan unprecedented $400 billion deficit. It markedan unabashed return to the free-spending 80s, abold negation of the economic gloom-and-doomers, arevisionist affirmation of the culture of partyingnow and paying later. Good boy, George. Wilcome tozah Nahntees.Honest Abe and an honest (five) bucks...
...Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart. He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame maker win lucrative contracts...
Take the recent joint appearance of Brown and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin at a breakfast for 1,500 liberal Democratic farmers and senior citizens in Moline, Ill. Harkin rolled up his working-class sleeves, quoted from the Old Testament and Abe Lincoln, and with drawling, oratorically expert highs and lows, hammered away at the Bush Administration on bread-and-butter issues...
...your fly," L.B.J. challenged Califano, when the aide believed he had cut a good deal with Arkansas' wily Senator John McClellan. "There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it." Califano still marvels over seeing Johnson crony Abe Fortas, by then a Supreme Court Justice, counsel the President on how the government should argue its case for the Penn Central Railroad merger, then watching the merger approval come down from the court with the majority opinion authored by Fortas...
...time. And the caller wasn't exactly a college kid reading a script; he was a former curator of the Smithsonian. Still, I was getting all set to find some delicate way off the phone ("Oh, gosh, the ambulance is here") when I remembered the Marilyn letter. Forget Abe Lincoln ("Dear Sir: Herewith I send you my autograph, which you request. Yours Truly, A. Lincoln": $5,000). What about Marilyn...