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17 Things You Don't Know About Howard Dean
People.com ^ | January 14, 2004 | JD HEYMAN and JANE SIMS PODESTA

Posted on 01/15/2004 2:29:50 PM PST by billorites

He's a hardheaded penny-pincher, she's a publicity-shy doctor. PEOPLE magazine sat down with Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean, 55, and his wife, Judy, 50, for their first joint interview. Read 17 things we learned about him, then peruse the exclusive transcript.

1. He calls his wife "sweetie"; she calls him "Howie."

2. He wore his prom tuxedo to one of President Clinton's White House state dinners to save money, but coughed and split his pants and had to be escorted home by state troopers covering his posterior.

3. His staff forced him to buy a new suit at Paul Stuart in New York for the campaign (it cost $800). "It nearly killed me."

4. He always turns off the lights when he walks out of a room. He used to get into fights with his wife about turning up the heat in the winter, so now she pays the bill so he doesn't have to see it.

5. The last sitcom he watched was All in the Family in its original run.

6. He is compulsive about recycling. Once he picked up every newspaper off an airplane at the end of a flight and hauled them to a recycling center. He also does recycling inspections of his staffer's bins.

7. He insists that paper in his office be printed on both sides.

8. He likes Outkast and Wyclef Jean (his son's music) as well as Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.

9. He fixes the toilet at home; plumbing is his "therapy."

10. He never takes taxis or limos. In New York City he takes the subway.

11. Asked his favorite food indulgence, he responds: fish. (He later amends this to chocolate chip cookies.)

12. He drinks generic ginger ale and snacks to save money.

13. He plays the guitar and harmonica. He sings '60s folk tunes (see: Peter, Paul and Mary above.)

14. Despite his reservations about cost, he was finally persuaded to take his shirts to the dry cleaner last year. He used to just throw them in the wash.

15. As the governor of Vermont, he drove himself and pumped his own gas.

16. He has been known to tape his shoes together.

17. He wears '70s-style gold-rimmed glasses that he won't update; his wife carries a purse covered in pen marks. They are both devoted discount shoppers ...



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To: BartMan1
I agree. This is actually a hit article on Dean. Somebody, once said, that when Americans vote for President, they often basically vote for somebody they would like to hang out with, have a beer with on a Saturday. Carter was an exception, though a nice guy, the Nixon/Ford thing was in effect.

Bill Clinton, as sleazy as he is, would probably be loads of fun at a party, compared to Poppa Bush. George W. on the other hand is the guy you want at your BBQ, rather than Al Gore.

Dean is toast. A wealthy kid, who was given money, makes alot of money, but is culturally illiterate is not going to win a presidential election.

It kinda reminds me of Ralph Nader in a sense. Nader is a cheap ass SOB, but he has a ton of money. That does not a president make.

121 posted on 01/15/2004 5:57:02 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: FormerLib
Can you even imagine working for a micro-managing buttwipe like that?

Howard Dean is nothing more, nor less, than Jimmeh Cahtuh -- with an attitude.

122 posted on 01/15/2004 6:03:45 PM PST by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
>>cheapness=mental disease>>
I agree. This doesn't sound like how a rich kid from NY would turn out, unless, he is sick.

123 posted on 01/15/2004 6:11:03 PM PST by Ditter
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To: NathanR
If he ever becomes president, we would not have those options.

No doubt about it, that would be a horrible fate for our nation.

124 posted on 01/15/2004 6:15:29 PM PST by FormerLib (We'll fight the good fight until the very end!)
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To: Wright is right!
<" 18. He gets anxiety attacks when told he's responsible for 600,000 people."

This is pretty disturbing. Dean is not a man who should be leading the nation on a good day, let alone a day of crisis. It also bothers me that a man with this level of anxiety and other odd compulsions lacks the self awareness to take himself out of this political process. His drive for power must be mighty powerful.

125 posted on 01/15/2004 6:26:28 PM PST by Think free or die
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To: billorites
Since he has only the one set of clothes for the campaign trail...does this mean they don't get laundered? Man, his underwear and socks must stink like a skunk.
126 posted on 01/15/2004 7:21:10 PM PST by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: Wright is right!
I can't stand Dean, but in fairness to him, Bush was a lot the same way about clothing.

One of the best books about him describes him taping the tassels back onto his loafers and wearing an old sweater for years that had been purchased for him, as a joke, from a thrift store.

For W to do it sounds cute and endearing to me. Dean is just creepy in every way. SHIVER!!!
127 posted on 01/16/2004 5:49:23 AM PST by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: billorites
He sure doesn't sound like a big-spender, which is what Democrats are.
128 posted on 01/16/2004 9:08:03 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: billorites
Where to start??? Well, first off, the guy seems like a compulsive control freak, which explains he desire to be the President. His taste in music indicates a lack of maturity and a resistence to change and taping expensive shoes (like Johnston Murphy tassel loafers) was a fad in the seventies at Ivy league schools, I even remember guys putting tape on new shoes. This man is extremely anal.
129 posted on 01/16/2004 9:14:14 AM PST by Eva
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To: billorites
He wore his prom tuxedo to one of President Clinton's White House state dinners to save money, but coughed and split his pants and had to be escorted home by state troopers covering his posterior.

There are people who KEEP their prom tuxedos??

I went to three, never bought one.

130 posted on 01/17/2004 10:12:32 AM PST by MegaSilver
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To: T Minus Four
I hate this kind of self-righteous, ahem......niggerdly-ness. My retired parents live in an upscale four bedroom three-story home, drive two newer cars, and like to brag about how they reuse foil and coffee filters.

That's disgusting.

131 posted on 01/17/2004 10:13:51 AM PST by MegaSilver
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To: billorites
He sounds like my FIL - a cheap, obsessive-compulsive control freak. Yikes !!
132 posted on 01/17/2004 10:49:52 AM PST by Rainmist
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To: billorites
Difference between Dean(Gore) and Bill Clinton...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-- C. S. Lewis

133 posted on 01/17/2004 11:18:05 AM PST by hosepipe
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To: clintonh8r
And does he insist that both sides of that paper gets used as well? That would be truly frugal.
134 posted on 01/17/2004 11:30:02 AM PST by White Eagle
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To: JimVT
Yeah, I figured that this was a "Hey, look, I'm just like you proles! Vote for me!" list.

Otherwise, this would be a sign of a genuine mental disorder.
135 posted on 01/17/2004 11:35:28 AM PST by Sofa King (-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS! http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/index.htm)
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