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Kinder. Gentler.

Friday, August 23, 2002

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• TITLE: "Kinder. Gentler."

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  Catch up with the Mullings Dog Days Tour Travelogue today!
  Chapter 1: San Antonio
  Chapter 2: The Flight to Las Vegas
  Chapter 3: I Take Las Vegas by Storm

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• "... John Linder ..." Linder, actually, gets credit - or blame - for Mullings. Back in those days, I wrote a once-in-a-while column named "Talking Points." One morning John stopped in my office with a copy in his hands and asked, "Who sees this?"

  I thought he meant "what is the distribution list?" so I told him, GOP Hill staff and the NRCC press list - a couple of hundred people.

  He had really been asking who approved it before it went out. The answer was, of course, no one, so I said, "John, here's your downside protection. If I write something that a reporter wants you to comment on all you have to say is, 'YOU try to tell Galen what to write!' There's not a reporter in this town who will give you any grief."

• " � Washington Post �" Here's a link to Tom Edsall's piece on Cynthia McKinney.

• "... BBC ..." Here's a link to the BBC piece on low cost air travel in Europe.
  
  
    British World War II Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  A first fitting.

  (Larry Downing/Reuters) ____________________________________________________________________________________