■ Ill feeling between the White House and the press, one Cabinet member told U.S. News, has now become “reminiscent of the late Nixon days.” The President skipped (boycotted?) the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, his place taken by Jody Powell, whose bitter jokes moved the audience to heckling. And the polls, the polls. Jimmy Carter may be the first paranoid ever seriously to underestimate the number of his enemies.
■ how’s that again? President Carter at Spokane (AP). “I look upon myself as a spokesman for the client and the medical patient and the student in a classroom, the elderly person, the mentally ill person. . . .”
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