Word: notebook
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George W. Bush's campaign promise of the week as reported in your "Pledge Drive" feature [NOTEBOOK, July 3] was a reach. Bush's words, "To ensure the American dream touches every willing heart and that no child is left behind," are merely a platitude meant to reassure the masses that Bush is concerned about what is supposedly deep in the heart of all Americans. I am much more interested in Al Gore's practical pledge to stop the rise of gasoline prices and to help train workers in new-economy skills than in Bush's nebulous words. BETSY SARLES...
...Nixonites are reaching out to G.O.P. guppies. The library's store sells pens, one showing Elvis visiting Nixon and another showing Air Force One buzzing the White House. For SoCal's budding thrashers, there are Nixon stickers--"perfect," says the website, "for placement on your car, skateboard or notebook...
...Gore may be Washington's best known control freak, but when it comes to minutiae, he has nothing on Bob Graham, who these days appears on nearly everyone's short list of possible Gore running mates. The Florida Senator has been filling notebook after notebook--close to four thousand of them to date, color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person...
...notebooks are vital to understanding Graham's outlook on life. His half brother Phil married Katharine Meyer, whose father owned the Washington Post, and the couple were at the epicenter of the Washington social whirl of the 1960s. But at 49, Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness...
...disagree with the consensus in your "60-Second Symposium" on how to respond to a pie in the face [NOTEBOOK, June 12]. I commend Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman for the presence of mind to deprive the self-righteous jerk with the pie the satisfaction of a hit. What she deserved was a left jab followed by a straight right to the nose. Our becoming so incredibly civilized is exactly what has encouraged the anarchic behavior exemplified by pie-wielding adolescents. RIP THOMAS Cleburne, Texas...