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but it’s double-stupid to blow up a bottle of the stuff!”
Opinion
No service in service stations
It was quite a shock paying $1.10 a gallon for unleaded gas
the other day at the neighborhood service station.
And it was quite sobering to realize the price will probably
go up again before the weekend. At least it wouldn’t be a
surprise.
But complaining about the price does nothing to lower it.
The oil companies continue to make huge profits and scream
that they really didn’t make that much money.
Maybe the price of gas wouldn’t be so bothersome if it
payed for more than the gas itself.
Not too long ago, 33 cents would buy a gallon of gas and
the service station attendant would put the gas in your tank,
throw in a free oil check, wash your windshield and wish you
a nice day.
Now you get a gallon of gas for $1.10 and a smirk from the
person behind the glass booth.
Of course there are some service stations around that will
wash your windshield and check your oil, but you have to
pay about a nickel more for the gasoline.
Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to pay so much if you got some
service at a service station. For free. It might improve the
image of the oil companies too.
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The Battalion
Texas A&M University
Wednesday
February 13, 1980
Washington Window
Campaign answer man knowsf 1 '-
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By ARNOLD SAWISLAK
United Press International
The Campaign Answer Man dropped by
to pick up a clean shirt on his way between
Iowa and New England and has consented
to give us the benefit of his insights into the
1980 presidential contest to date.
Question: Were you surprised by the
outcome of the Iowa caucuses?
Answer Man: Not in the least. lowans
are a canny folk, and the Democrats among
them quickly decided any politician claim
ing to be concerned about the plight of
“farm farmilies” and the demise of the
Wabash railroad did not have their prob
lems quite straight in his mind.
As for the Republicans, it was strictly a
case of taking a Bush in hand and giving
everybody else the bird.
Q: Do you believe the age issue hurt
Governor Reagan?
AM: Not really. After all, Reagan was
able to point out that when Methuselah was
his age, he hadn’t been elected to anything.
Q: How about the president? Did Iowa
change his campaign strategy?
AM: Only slightly. Having defeated
Senator Kennedy in Iowa without leaving
the White House except to go to the NBC
studios for “Meet The Press,” he now will
campaign in New Hampshire by declining
to leave the Oval Office, unless “Face The
Nation” has an open date.
His Florida campaign will consist of
staying in the family quarters of the White
House, with no exceptions except for
“Issues And Answers.” By next fall, Mr.
Carter will have locked himself in his
closet, where he will agree to answer writ
ten questions from “Our Sunday Visitor.”
Q: No much has been heard of Gov.
Connally’s campaign. What is his status?
AM: Gov. Connally is raising funds and
will not move into the delegate-winning
phase of his campaign until he has $73 mil
lion in his warchest. That will be no later
than July 14.
Q: We understand he entertained the
entire Arkansas Republican leadership
with a gala weekend at a posh resort. Was
that a successful effort?
AM: The governor got no delegates in
Arkansas, but that was blamed on the weak
barbecue sauce. The chef has been reas
signed to another campaign job and the
governor intends to go ahead with his plan
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New biography contradicts ide
of Mondale as a lazy politician
By DAVID S. BRODEB
In his newly published biography of the
vice-president, “Mondale: Portrait of an
American Politician,” author Finaly Lewis
definitively buries the widespread notion
that Walter F. Mondale is a lazy politician
who has been lucky enough to inherit by
appointment a series of increasingly impor
tant jobs.
Lucky, yes; lazy no, Lewis shoes. It was
by dint of hard work for his party and its
leaders that Mondale made himself the
plausible choice to be named attorney gen
eral of Minnesota, senator from that state,
and vice-president. Had he not done the
scut-work of organizing and campaigning
for others, over the years, Mondale might
still be practicing law back in Minneapolis.
In this context, what Mondale is doing
for Jimmy Carter in the 1980 campaign is
part of a pattern — a repeat of the chores he
performed earlier for Orville Freeman and
Hubert H. Humphrey. While the seques
tered President remains on his pedestal,
Mondale has been slogging it out on behalf
of the ticket in Iowa, Maine and New
Hampshire.
For Mondale, the effort is an investment
in both the short-term and the long-term
future. Six months ago, he talked like a man
who half-expected to be out of office at the
end of 1980. “Ted will be tough, ” he would
remark back then, speaking of his friend,
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who has
reacted with increasing irritation to Mon
dale’s campaign jibes.
Mondale now tells questioners that he
was sure that Carter would recover in the
polls as soon as he was matched “against a
man and not a myth. ” But last fall, a great
many Minnesota Democrats received the
clear impression that Mondale expected to
be coming home after the 1980 election,
intent on trying to recapture his old Senate
seat — just as Humphrey had done when
his four years in the vice-presidency ended
in defeat.
But circumstances have changed drama
tically since then. While Carter and Mon
dale are far from cinches to be renominated
and reelected, they are even farther from
consignment to the political junk-heap.
What becomes evident to those covering
Mondale is that the vice-president is put
ting himself in position to be a formidable
contender for the presidency in 1984.
There is no telling what the opposition
might be, but it could well include the 1980
challengers, Kennedy and Gov. Edmund
G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., plus any of a dozen
younger Democrats who are poised on the
brink of national recognition.
But there is no mystery about the assets
Mondale would command if he were run
ning for President as the incumbent vice-
president four years from now. The first
would be the support of a White House and
administration that have clearly learned
how to exploit the political power of incum
bency. There can be no doubt that Mon
dale would be Jimmy Carter’s candidate to
succeed himself in the presidency — with
all the benefits and liabilities such support
could bring.
But this campaign is making it clear that
Mondale has important assets of his own to
apply to such an effort. Aside from his per
sonal qualities that have fueled his rise, the
Mondale resource most admired by Demo
cratic politicians is a consistently first-rate
staff headed by three of the most astute
young political operators in the party —
Jim Johnson, Dick Moe and Mike Berman.
AH three are Minnesotans, but they are
not parochial. Johnson has made himself an
expert on the politics of Iowa and Illinois,
and in traveling with Mondale, has built his
own close working relations with leading
Democrats in such other early delegate-
selection states as Maine, New Hampshire
and Wisconsin.
Anyone who looks at the politidi
der from a Mondale perspective isij
by the fact by the fact that he hasap
geographical and political
these states, the states that comes "SL
the process and that have disproprfE
influence on the outcome.
Is 1984 on Mondale’s mind?HisWL
paign speeches are impeccably
a devoted associate’s hymn ofpraOTw
incumbent President. SL
Mondale barely mentions himself'
til the very end of his stump speed^fr'
after imploring his audience at WfflL
reaffirm Carter’s tenure, he liftslis47
as if signaling a benediction, andsJ'fy'
you do that, you get something ebplL
very excited about — you get WalK' S
Mondale!” Ir
It is done with a light touch that«®L
the listeners to laugh as well as dies:|y
anyone who thinks it’s accidentalthat^Pf'
dale has figured out how to end ‘WL
every speech with is own name-not®
ter’s — echoing in the air, needs toWf
Finlay Lewis’ book.
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This guy is lazy — or crazy—lifeil
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(c) 1980, The Washington Postwj jl
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