Tulsa's Congressman Jim Jones was one of a couple dozen invited to the White House last week by Jimmy Carter, No. 1 White House lobbyist. Eat before I go, thought Jones, whose three other breakfasts down there had consisted of two nickel-size biscuits and orange juice. He did. In his office on Capitol Hill.
At 7:40 a.m. Wednesday he buttoned up his blue suit, took the elevator to the basement of the Cannon Building and mounted his ten-year-old, three-speed Sears bike. He pumped out on New Jersey Avenue, rounded the corner to Independence Avenue. Beautiful day, he mused to himself....
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