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Tempers Run Hot

5.15.08 @ 12:01AM

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MAROONED
Re: William Tucker's Parlez-Vous Nucleaire?:

In 1990 I was pleasantly surprised by two reactors in the Loire Valley near the French chateau I stayed in. They were surrounded by deep woods, beautiful rivers and seemed to belong there. However, just before the elegant table d'hote dinner a young woman from Cleveland -- a fellow Ohioan! -- brayed loudly that she couldn't believe the French permitted nuclear reactors. Le Bugs Lapin said it best: "What a maroon!"
-- Dennis DiMuzio
Cincinnati

I wonder where the French got their ideas, maybe you should got back to the desert near Idaho Falls, the place where all those ideas came from. Also thank the Clintons for stopping the recycling idea, it was completed, tested then scrapped (IFR).
-- Jeff Olsen
Idaho Falls, Idaho

DRUNKEN LUNCHEON
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Jimmy Carter's Second Term:

In his essay about Jimmy Carter's "second term," Jeffrey Lord wrote of the "$50 martini lunch" used by Carter as a metaphor to attack business. I think the actual term used was "the three martini lunch," which not only encapsulated the notion of getting away with something wrong, but the aspect of going back to work impaired by consumption of alcohol, a notion held in contempt not only by Carter's fellow Baptists, but also the great number of new-prohibitionists that thrive to this very day.
-- Gary Stewart
Kenney, Illinois

Jeffrey Lord replies:
Gary Stewart and I have the same memory. Alas a check reveals that Jimmy Carter did in fact talk about the "$50 martini lunch" during the 1976 campaign. "Three martini lunch" has much more of a ring to it, and others picked up on it. Then again, former President Carter has well established his political tone-deafness.

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